Job 14:9 yet at the scent of water it will bud and put forth shoots like a plant.

◄ Job 14:9 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
yet at the scent of water it will bud and put forth shoots like a plant.

English Standard Version
yet at the scent of water it will bud and put out branches like a young plant.

New American Standard Bible
At the scent of water it will flourish And put forth sprigs like a plant.

King James Bible
Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
the smell of water makes it thrive and produce twigs like a sapling.

International Standard Version
the presence of water will make it to bud so that it sprouts new branches like a young plant.

American Standard Version
Yet through the scent of water it will bud, And put forth boughs like a plant.

Douay-Rheims Bible
At the scent of water, it shall spring, and bring forth leaves, as when it was first planted.

Darby Bible Translation
Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and put forth boughs like a young plant.

Young's Literal Translation
From the fragrance of water it doth flourish, And hath made a crop as a plant.

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

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 comforters, he pleases himself with the expectation of a change. If our sins are forgiven, and our hearts renewed to holiness, heaven will be the rest of our souls, while our bodies are hidden in the grave from the malice of our enemies, feeling no more pain from our corruptions, or our corrections.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

9. 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.