Job 14:9
Still, at the smell of water, it will make buds, and put out branches like a young plant.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
In Context
8Though its root may be old in the earth, and its cut-off end may be dead in the dust;
10But man comes to his death and is gone: he gives up his spirit, and where is he?
Cross References
Ezekiel 17:3And say, This is what the Lord has said: A great eagle with great wings, full of long feathers of different colours, came to Lebanon, and took the top of the cedar:
Ezekiel 19:10Your mother was in comparison like a vine, planted by the waters: she was fertile and full of branches because of the great waters.
Romans 11:17But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, an olive-tree of the fields, were put in among them, and were given a part with them in the root by which the olive-tree is made fertile,
Matthew Henry on Job 14:8-16
Death Anticipated. ( b. c. 1520.) 7 For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. 8 Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground; 9 Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant. 10 But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he? 11 As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: 12 So man lieth down, and… Read the whole commentary →