Christian Standard Bible
Job 14:9
9the scent of water makes it thrive and produce twigs like a sapling.
Job 14:9 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
- New International Version (NIV)yet at the scent of water it will bud and put forth shoots like a plant.
- English Standard Version (ESV)yet at the scent of water it will bud and put out branches like a young plant.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Yet at the scent of water it will bud And bring forth branches like a plant.
Context of Job 14:9
7There is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its shoots will not die. 8If its roots grow old in the ground and its stump starts to die in the soil, the scent of water makes it thrive and produce twigs like a sapling. 10But a person dies and fades away; he breathes his last — where is he? 11As water disappears from a lake and a river becomes parched and dry,
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מֵרֵ֣יחַ מַ֣יִם יַפְרִ֑חַ וְעָשָׂ֖ה קָצִ֣יר כְּמוֹ־נָֽטַע׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 14:9
- Ezekiel 17:3You are to say, ‘This is what the Lord God says: A huge eagle with powerful wings, long feathers, and full plumage of many colors came to Lebanon and took the top of the cedar.
- Ezekiel 19:10Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard, planted by the water; it was fruitful and full of branches because of abundant water.
- Romans 11:17Now if some of the branches were broken off, and you, though a wild olive branch, were grafted in among them and have come to share in the rich root of the cultivated olive tree,
Commentaries on Job 14:9
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 9Through the scent of water it will bud - A fine metaphor: the water acts upon the decaying and perishing tree, as strong and powerful odors from musk, otto of roses, ammonia, etc., act on a fainting or swooning person.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 9Yet through the scent of water - The word here rendered “scent” (ריח rêyach ) means properly the odor or fragrance which anything exhales or emits; Genesis 27:27. The idea is very delicate and poetic. It is designed to denote a gentle and pleasant contact - not a rush of water - by which the tree is made to live. It inhales, so to speak, the vital influence from the water - as we are refreshed and revived by grateful odorifles when we are ready to faint…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 7-15Verses 7-15 Though a tree is cut down, yet, in a moist situation, shoots come forth, and grow up as a newly planted tree. But when man is cut off by death, he is for ever removed from his place in this world. The life of man may fitly be compared to the waters of a land flood, which spread far, but soon dry up. All Job's expressions here show his belief in the great doctrine of the resurrection. Job's friends proving miserable comforters, he pleases…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 99. scent--exhalation, which, rather than the humidity of water, causes the tree to germinate. In the antithesis to man the tree is personified, and volition is poetically ascribed to it. like a plant--"as if newly planted" [Umbreit]; not as if trees and plants were a different species.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 14
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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