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Job 14:9
9But if only a little water comes near to it, it will start to grow again. It will make new branches, like a young plant.
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
7If someone cuts down a tree, the tree may not die. New branches may grow from it. 8Its roots in the ground may be old. The part of the tree that remains may be nearly dead. But if only a little water comes near to it, it will start to grow again. It will make new branches, like a young plant. 10But when people lose their strength and they die, that is the end. After they die, where do they go? 11When the water disappears from a lake or a river, they become 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 17:3Say to them, “The Almighty Lord says this: There was a great eagle that had strong wings. Its feathers were long and beautiful, with many colours. The eagle came to Lebanon and he took hold of the top of a cedar tree.
- Ezekiel 19:10Your mother was like a vine that was growing near a stream. It grew well because there was plenty of water there. It made many branches and it had a lot of fruit.
- Romans 11:17Israel's people are like an olive tree that a farmer has planted. But God has broken off some of that tree's branches. Then he has taken a branch from a wild olive tree. He has put that wild branch into the farmer's tree, to become part of that tree. You Gentiles are like the wild branch. Now you receive food from the root of the farmer's tree, to make you strong.
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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