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Job 14:9 KJV
Job · chapter 14 · verse 9
Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.Job 14:9 · King James Version
Job 14:9 in context
7For 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.
8Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;
9Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
10But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
11As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- boughsqâtsîyrseveredH7105 →
- scentrêyachodorH7381 →
- watermayimwaterH4325 →
- forthʻâsâhto do or make, in the broadest sense and widest applicationH6213 →
- budpârachto break forth as a budH6524 →
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We have seen what Job has to say concerning life; let us now see what he has to say concerning death, which his thoughts were very much conversant with, now that he was sick and sore. It is not unseasonable, when we are in health, to think of dying;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 7-15