Job 14:9 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant. ”

• Job 14:9 - Albert 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:...

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• Job 14:9 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Job 14:7-12 gives the reason why God should let man have what little pleasure he can ( Job 14:6 ): Death ends all. In Damascus it is still customary to cut down trees, the stumps of which being w...

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• Job 14:9 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  plants . a new plant.

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• Job 14:9 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant. Through the scent of water it will bud - A fine metaphor: the water acts upon the decaying and perishing tree, as st...

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• Job 14:9 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  For there is hope of a tree, &c.— Job begins this chapter with a reflection on the shortness and wretchedness of human life, a truth which he had so sadly learned from experience. In his progre...

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• Job 14:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant. Scent - exhalation, which, rather than the humidity of water, causes the tree to germinate. Hardly does it fee...

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• Job 14:9 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Job's Third Speech (concluded) 1-6. Job pleads for God's forbearance on the grounds of man's shortness of life and sinful nature. 1, 2. The well-known Sentence in the Burial Service.

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• Job 14:9 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  XII. BEYOND FACT AND FEAR TO GOD Job 12:1-25 ; Job 13:1-28 ; Job 14:1-22 Job SPEAKS ZOPHAR excites in Job's mind great irritation, which must not be set down altogether to the fact that he...

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• Job 14:9 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Shall Man Live Again? Job 14:1-22 Continuing his appeal, Job looks from his own case to the condition of mankind generally, Job 14:1-6 . All men are frail and full of trouble, Job 14:12 ; w...

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• Job 14:9 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Taking a more general outlook, Job declared that man's life is ever transitory, and full of trouble. This should be a reason why God should pity him, and let him work out the brief period of its dura...

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• Job 14:9 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (7) В¶ For 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. (8) Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock th...

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• Job 14:9 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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...

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• Job 14:9 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Job 14:9 [Yet] through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant. Ver. 9. Yet through the scent of water it will bud ] Heb. From the smell of waters. A sweet metaphor,...

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• Job 14:9 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down If the body of a tree be cut down, and only the stem or stump be left in the ground, yet there is hope; that it will sprout again Hebrew, יחלי Š, j...

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• Job 14:9 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  MAN'S DECAY AND DEATH (vv.1-12) What Job had said in chapter 3:28 he expands upon in these verses, giving a vivid description of the evanescent character of man's life on earth. This is generall...

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• Job 14:9 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Death Anticipated. B. C. 1520.       7 For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that...

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• Job 14:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Through the scent of water, i.e. by means of water. Scent or smell is figuratively ascribed to a tree. Like a plant; like a tree newly planted.

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• Job 14:9 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CONTINUATION OF JOB’S PLEADING WITH GOD I. Pleads the common infirmity of human nature ( Job 14:1-4 ). Man, from the very nature of his birth, frail and mortal, suffering and sinful. “Born of a...

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• Job 14:9 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Job 14:4 . Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Then seeing we are all stained with original and actual sin, why should Zophar, without the least proof, almost say that Job's afflictions...

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• Job 14:9 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Job 14:1-18 This chapter, in which Job concludes the fourth of his addresses, is characterized by a tone of mild and gentle expostulation, which contrasts with the comparative ve...

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• Job 14:9 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  A Complaint over Life's Troubles

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• Job 14:9 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Ezekiel 17:22-24 ; Ezekiel 17:3-10 ; Ezekiel 19:10 ; Romans 11:17-24

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• Job 14:9 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Scent — By means of water. Scent or smell, is figuratively ascribed to a tree.

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