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Job 14:9

Context
NETBible

at the scent 1  of water it will flourish 2  and put forth 3  shoots like a new plant.

XREF

Eze 17:3-10,22-24; Eze 19:10; Ro 11:17-24

NET © Notes

tn The personification adds to the comparison with people – the tree is credited with the sense of smell to detect the water.

tn The sense of “flourish” for this verb is found in Ps 92:12,13[13,14], and Prov 14:11. It makes an appropriate parallel with “bring forth boughs” in the second half.

tn Heb “and will make.”



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