Job 14:9
Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and put forth boughs like a plant.
Revised Version 1895
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 root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;
10But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
Cross References
Ezekiel 17:3and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD: A great eagle with great wings and long pinions, full of feathers, which had divers colours, came unto Lebanon, and took the top of the cedar:
Ezekiel 19:10Thy mother was like a vine, in thy blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.
Romans 11:17But if some of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive, wast grafted in among them, and didst become partaker with them of the root of the 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 →