job 14:9 Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.

job 14:9 At the scent of water it will flourish And put forth sprigs like a plant.

9. 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.

job 14:9 At the scent of water it will flourish And put forth sprigs like a plant.

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