Ezekiel 17:22-24; Ezekiel 17:3-10; Ezekiel 19:10; Romans 11:17-24
Yet through the scent of water - The word here rendered “scent” ( ריח rêyach ) means properly the odor or fragrance which anything exhales or...
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 custom...
plants . a new plant.
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 wate...
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 h...
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...
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 wel...
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 mu...
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...
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,...
(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 r...
[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; denotin...
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 ]...
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 ho...
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...
Death Anticipated. B. C. 1520. 7 For...
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....
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,...
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...
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 expo...
A Complaint over Life's Troubles
yet through the scent of water it will bud, it will sprout with new life as soon as the rainy season brings the vigor of water, and bring forth boug...
Scent — By means of water. Scent or smell, is figuratively ascribed to a tree.
9 Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.