Job 14:9
Through the scent of water it will bud, And put forth boughs, like a young plant.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
In Context
8Though its root may have grown old in the earth, And though its trunk be dead upon the ground,
10But man dieth, and he is gone! Man expireth, and where is he?
Cross References
Ezekiel 17:3and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: A great eagle, with great wings, with long feathers, full of plumage, which had divers colors, came to Lebanon, and took the highest branch of a cedar.
Ezekiel 19:10Thy mother was like a vine planted like thyself by the waters; She was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters;
Romans 11:17And if some of the branches have been broken off, and thou, a wild olive, hast been grafted in among them, and become a partaker with them of the root and 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 →