Job 14:9
Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
Job 14:9 in other translations
| BSB | at the scent of water it will bud and put forth twigs like a sapling. |
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| WEB | yet through the scent of water it will bud, and sprout boughs like a plant. |
| ASV | Yet through the scent of water it will bud, And put forth boughs like a plant. |
| YLT | From the fragrance of water it doth flourish, And hath made a crop as a plant. |
| DARBY | Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and put forth boughs like a young plant. |
| BBE | Still, at the smell of water, it will make buds, and put out branches like a young plant. |
| Webster | Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant. |
What does Job 14:9 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 14:7-15
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…
Job 14:9 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 14:9
- Romans 11:17-24
And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree; Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee. Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in. Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear: …
- Ezekiel 17:22-24
Thus saith the Lord God; I will also take of the highest branch of the high cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one, and will plant it upon an high mountain and eminent: In the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it: and it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar: and under it shall dwell all fowl of every wing; in the shadow of the branches thereof shall they dwell. And all the trees of the field shall know that I the Lord have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish: I the Lord have spoken and have done it.
- Ezekiel 17:3-10
And say, Thus saith the Lord God; A great eagle with great wings, longwinged, full of feathers, which had divers colours, came unto Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar: He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land of traffick; he set it in a city of merchants. He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful field; he placed it by great waters, and set it as a willow tree. And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs. …
- Ezekiel 19:10
Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.
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Eze 17:3-10,22-24; 19:10; Ro 11:17-24
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Context
- Job 14:8
Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;
- Job 14:9
Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
- Job 14:10
But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
Job 14:9 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Al percibir el agua reverdecerá, y hará copa como planta. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | À l’odeur de l’eau il poussera, et il fera des branches comme un jeune plant; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | vom Dufte des Wassers sproßt er wieder auf und treibt Zweige wie ein Pflänzling. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | ad odorem aquæ germinabit, et faciet comam, quasi cum primum plantatum est. |