Job 14:9
It will blossom from the scent of water, 1 And will produce a crop, as one newly planted. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
In Context
8For though its root should grow old in the earth, 1 And its stem die in the rock; 1
10But a man that has died is utterly gone; 1 And when a mortal has fallen, he is no more. 1
Cross References
Ezekiel 17:3and thou shalt say, Thus saith the Lord; A great eagle with large wings, spreading them out very far, with many claws, which has the design of entering into Lebanon—and he took the choice branches of the cedar:
Ezekiel 19:10Thy mother was as a vine and as a blossom on a pomegranate tree, planted by water: her fruit and her shoots abounded by reason of much water.
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 →