Job 14:9
At the scent of water, it shall spring, and bring forth leaves, as when it was first planted.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 root be old in the earth, and its stock be dead in the dust:
10But man when he shall be dead, and stripped and consumed, I pray you where is he?
Cross References
Ezekiel 17:3And say: Thus saith the Lord God: A large eagle with great wings, long-limbed, full of feathers, and of variety, came to Libanus, and took away the marrow of the cedar.
Ezekiel 19:10Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood planted by the water: her fruit and her branches have grown out of many waters.
Romans 11:17And if some of the branches be broken, and thou, being a wild olive, art ingrafted in them, and art made 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 →