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Job 14:9

HopeNew life and rebirth

7 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 thereof die in the ground;

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

10 But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?

11 As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:

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BSB
at the scent of water it will bud and put forth twigs like a sapling.
KJV
Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
WEB
yet through the scent of water it will bud, and sprout boughs like a plant.
ASV
Yet through the scent of water it will bud, And put forth boughs like a plant.
DARBY
Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and put forth boughs like a young plant.
BLB
from the scent of water it will sprout, and will make branch[es] like a [fresh] planting.
ÅB
så setter det allikevel knopper ved eimen av vannet og skyter greiner som et nyplantet tre.
OTB
Ved duften av vann vil det blomstre
Og sende ut grener som en ung plante.
B1930
så setter det allikevel knopper ved eimen av vannet og skyter grener som et nyplantet tre.

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Cross references

  • Romans 11:17–24

    And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;

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  • Ezekiel 17:22–24

    Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also take of the highest branch of the high cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one, and will plant it upon an high mountain and eminent:

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  • Ezekiel 17:3–10

    And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; A great eagle with great wings, longwinged, full of feathers, which had divers colours, came unto Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar:

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  • Ezekiel 19:10

    Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.

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