Job 14:9
Douay-Rheims
At the scent of water, it shall spring, and bring forth leaves, as when it was first planted.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown
scent--exhalation, which, rather than the humidity of water, causes the tree to germinate. In the antithesis to man the tree is personified, and volition is poetically ascribed to it. like a plant--"as if newly planted" [UMBREIT]; not as if trees and plants were a different species.
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1871 · Job 14:9
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.