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New King James Version

Job 14:9

Yet at the scent of water it will bud And bring forth branches like a plant.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Death;   Readings, Select;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Water;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Decrees of God;   Greatness of God;   Hypocrisy;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Job;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Branch and Bough;   Eschatology of the Old Testament (with Apocryphal and Apocalyptic Writings);   Job, Book of;   Novice;   Scent;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
the scent of water makes it thriveand produce twigs like a sapling.
Hebrew Names Version
Yet through the scent of water it will bud, And put forth boughs like a plant.
King James Version
Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
English Standard Version
yet at the scent of water it will bud and put out branches like a young plant.
New Century Version
at the smell of water it will bud and put out new shoots like a plant.
New English Translation
at the scent of water it will flourish and put forth shoots like a new plant.
Amplified Bible
Yet at the scent of water [the stump of the tree] will flourish And bring forth sprigs and shoots like a seedling.
New American Standard Bible
At the scent of water it will flourish And produce sprigs like a plant.
World English Bible
Yet through the scent of water it will bud, And put forth boughs like a plant.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Yet by the sent of water it will bud, and bring foorth boughes like a plant.
Legacy Standard Bible
At the scent of water it will flourishAnd put forth sprigs like a plant.
Berean Standard Bible
at the scent of water it will bud and put forth twigs like a sapling.
Contemporary English Version
but at the touch of water, fresh twigs shoot up.
Complete Jewish Bible
yet at the scent of water it will bud and put forth branches like a young plant.
Darby Translation
Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and put forth boughs like a young plant.
Easy-to-Read Version
but with water, it will grow again. It will grow branches like a new plant.
George Lamsa Translation
Yet through the scent of water it will bud and bring forth leaves like a plant;
Good News Translation
with water it will sprout like a young plant.
Lexham English Bible
at the scent of water it will bud, and it will put forth branches like a young plant.
Literal Translation
at the scent of water it will bud and bring forth branches like a plant.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
getteth the sent of water, it will budde, and brynge forth bowes, like as when it was first planted.
American Standard Version
Yet through the scent of water it will bud, And put forth boughs like a plant.
Bible in Basic English
Still, at the smell of water, it will make buds, and put out branches like a young plant.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and put forth boughs like a plant.
King James Version (1611)
Yet through the sent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughes like a plant.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Yet when it getteth the sent of water, it wyll budde and bring foorth bowes, lyke as a tree that is planted.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
it will blossom from the scent of water, and will produce a crop, as one newly planted.
English Revised Version
Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and put forth boughs like a plant.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
it schal buriowne at the odour of watir, and it schal make heer, as whanne it was plauntid first.
Update Bible Version
Yet through the scent of water it will bud, And put forth boughs like a plant.
Webster's Bible Translation
[Yet] through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
New Living Translation
at the scent of water it will bud and sprout again like a new seedling.
New Life Bible
But with water it will grow. Branches will grow from it like a plant.
New Revised Standard
yet at the scent of water it will bud and put forth branches like a young plant.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Through the scent of water, it may break forth, and produce branches like a sapling,
Douay-Rheims Bible
At the scent of water, it shall spring, and bring forth leaves, as when it was first planted.
Revised Standard Version
yet at the scent of water it will bud and put forth branches like a young plant.
Young's Literal Translation
From the fragrance of water it doth flourish, And hath made a crop as a plant.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
At the scent of water it will flourish And put forth sprigs like a plant.

Contextual Overview

7 "For there is hope for a tree, If it is cut down, that it will sprout again, And that its tender shoots will not cease. 8 Though its root may grow old in the earth, And its stump may die in the ground, 9 Yet at the scent of water it will bud And bring forth branches like a plant. 10 But man dies and is laid away; Indeed he breathes his last And where is he? 11 As water disappears from the sea, And a river becomes parched and dries up, 12 So man lies down and does not rise. Till the heavens are no more, They will not awake Nor be roused from their sleep. 13 "Oh, that You would hide me in the grave, That You would conceal me until Your wrath is past, That You would appoint me a set time, and remember me! 14 If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait, Till my change comes. 15 You shall call, and I will answer You; You shall desire the work of Your hands.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

and bring: Ezekiel 17:3-10, Ezekiel 17:22-24, Ezekiel 19:10, Romans 11:17-24

Reciprocal: Psalms 1:3 - tree

Gill's Notes on the Bible

[Yet] through the scent of water it will bud,.... As soon as it smells it, or perceives it, is sensible of it, or partakes of its efficacy; denoting both how speedily, and how easily, at once as it were, it buds forth through the virtue either of rain water that descends upon it, or river water by which it is planted, or by any means conveyed unto it; particularly this is true of the willow, which delights in watery places; and, when it is in the circumstances before described, will by the benefit of water bud out again, even when its stock has been seemingly dead:

and bring forth boughs like a plant; as if it was a new plant, or just planted; so the Vulgate Latin version, as "when it was first planted"; or as a plant that sends forth many branches: the design of this simile is to show that man's case is worse than that of trees, which when cut down sprout out again, and are in the place where they were before; but man, when he is cut down by death, rises up no more in the same place; he is seen no more in it, and the place that knew him knows him no more; where he falls he lies until the general resurrection; he rises not before without a miracle, and such instances are very rare, and never either before or at the resurrection, but by the omnipotence of God; whereas a tree, in the above circumstances, sprouts out of itself, according to its nature, and in virtue of a natural power which God has put into it; not so man y.

y "Mutat terra vices-----nos ubi decidimus", Horat. Carmin. l. 4. Ode 7.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Yet through the scent of water - The word here rendered “scent” (ריח rêyach) means properly the odor or fragrance which anything exhales or emits; Song of Solomon 2:13; Song of Solomon 7:13; 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.

It will bud - Or, rather, it will germinate, or spring up again - יפרח yapârach; see the notes at Isaiah 55:10.

And bring forth boughs - קציר qâtsı̂yr. This word usually means a harvest; Genesis 8:22; Genesis 30:14; Genesis 45:6. It also means, as here, a bough, or branch; compare Psalms 80:11; Job 18:16; Job 29:19.

Like a plant - Like a young plant - as fresh and vigorous as a plant that is set out.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 14:9. Through the scent of water it will bud — A fine metaphor: the water acts upon the decaying and perishing tree, as strong and powerful odours from musk, otto of roses, ammonia, &c., act on a fainting or swooning person.


 
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