Job 14:9
at the scent of water it will bud and put forth twigs like a sapling.
Majority Standard Bible
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 ground and its stump dies in the soil,
10But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last, and where is he?
Cross References
Ezekiel 17:3and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘A great eagle with great wings and long pinions, full of feathers of many colors, came to Lebanon and took away the top of the cedar.
Ezekiel 19:10Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard, planted by the water; it was fruitful and full of branches because of the abundant waters.
Romans 11:17Now if some branches have been broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others to share in the nourishment of the olive root,
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 →