Job 14:9
Yet by the sent of water it will bud, and bring foorth boughes like a plant.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
In Context
8Though the roote of it waxe olde in the earth, and the stocke thereof be dead in ye ground,
10But man is sicke, and dyeth, and man perisheth, and where is he?
Cross References
Ezekiel 17:3And say, Thus saith the Lord God, The great eagle with great wings, and long wings, and ful of fethers, which had diuers colours, came vnto Lebanon, and tooke the highest branch of the cedar,
Ezekiel 19:10Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she brought foorth fruite and branches by the abundant waters,
Romans 11:17And though some of the branches be broken off, and thou being a wilde Oliue tree, wast graft in for them, and made partaker of the roote, and fatnesse of the Oliue 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 →