Job 14:9
Through the scent of water, it may break forth, and produce branches like a sapling,
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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 root, should become old in the earth, and, in the dust, its stock should die:
10Yet, man, dieth, and is prostrate, Yea the son of earth doth cease to breathe, and where is he?
Cross References
Ezekiel 17:3So then thou shalt say, Thus, saith My Lord. Yahweh,— A great eagle, with large wings of long pinion, full of plumage, which had divers colours, came unto Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar:
Ezekiel 19:10Thy mother [was] like a vine of thy vineyard, By waters, was planted,— Fruitful and full of branches, she became By reason of waters abundant;
Romans 11:17If, however, some of the branches, have been broken out, and, thou, being a wild olive hast been grafted in among them, and hast become a joint partaker of the root of the fatness of the olive,
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 →