Job 14:9
yet even if it only smells water, it will bud 1 and send out branches like a plant. 1
Unlocked Literal 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 grows old in the earth, 1 and its stump dies in the ground, 1
10But man dies; he becomes weak; 1 indeed, man stops breathing, and then where is he? 1
Cross References
Ezekiel 17:3Say, 'The Lord Yahweh says this: 1 A large eagle with large wings and long pinions, full of feathers, 1 and that was multicolored went to Lebanon and took hold of the top of a cedar tree. 1
Ezekiel 19:10Your mother was like a vine planted in your blood beside the water. + 19:10 Instead of in your blood , some ancient copies and many modern versions have in your vineyard . 1 it was fruitful and full of branches because of the abundance of water. 1
Romans 11:17But if some of the branches were broken off, if you, a wild olive branch, were grafted in among them, and if you shared with them in the rich root 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 →