Job 14:9
Yet through the scent of water will it flourish [again], and produce boughs as though It were newly planted.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
In Context
8If even its root become old in the earth, and its stock die in the dust:
10But man dieth, and lieth powerless: yea, the son of earth departeth—and where is he?
Cross References
Ezekiel 17:3And say, Thus hath said the Lord Eternal, The great eagle with large wings, long winged, full of feathers, who is rich in many colors, came unto the Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar:
Ezekiel 19:10Thy mother was like a vine, if I compare thee to aught, planted by the waters: fruitful and full of boughs was she by reason of many waters.
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 →