Job 14:9
at the scent of water, it will sprout and bring forth leaves, as when it had first been planted.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
In Context
8If its roots grow old in the earth, and its trunk passes into dust,
10Truly, when a man dies, and has been left unprotected, and has decayed, I ask you where is he?
Cross References
Ezekiel 17:3and you shall say: Thus says the Lord God: A large eagle, with great wings and elongated pinions, full of feathers with many colors, came to Lebanon. And he took the kernel of the cedar.
Ezekiel 19:10Your mother is like a vine, in your blood, planted by the water; her fruit and her branches have increased because of many waters.
Romans 11:17And if some of the branches are broken, and if you, being a wild olive branch, are grafted on to them, and you become a partaker of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree,
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 →