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Job 14:9

World English Bible

yet through the scent of water it will bud,
and sprout boughs like a plant.

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Job 14:9 in other translations

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

Job 14:9 · American Standard Version

Job 14:9 in context

  1. 7“For there is hope for a tree if it is cut down,
    that it will sprout again,
    that the tender branch of it will not cease.
  2. 8Though its root grows old in the earth,
    and its stock dies in the ground,
  3. 9yet through the scent of water it will bud,
    and sprout boughs like a plant.
  4. 10But man dies, and is laid low.
    Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?
  5. 11As the waters fail from the sea,
    and the river wastes and dries up,