Job 14:9
Good News Translation
with water it will sprout like a young plant.

New Revised Standard Version
yet at the scent of water it will bud and put forth branches like a young plant.

Contemporary English Version
but at the touch of water, it sprouts once again.

New American Bible
Yet at the first whiff of water it sprouts and puts forth branches like a young plant.

Douay-Rheims Bible
At the scent of water, it shall spring, and bring forth leaves, as when it was first planted.

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At the scent of water, it shall spring, and bring forth leaves, as when it was first planted.

and bring

Ezekiel 17:3-10,22-24 And say: Thus saith the Lord God; A large eagle with great wings, long-limbed, full of feathers, and of variety, came to Libanus, and took away the marrow of the cedar. . . .

Ezekiel 19:10 Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood planted by the water: her fruit and her branches have grown out of many waters.

Romans 11:17-24 And if some of the branches be broken and thou, being a wild olive, art ingrafted in them and art made partaker of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree: . . .

Context
Job Laments the Finality of Death
8If its roots be old in the earth, and its stock be dead in the dust: 9At the scent of water, it shall spring, and bring forth leaves, as when it was first planted.10But man when he shall be dead, and stripped and consumed, I pray you where is he?…
Cross References
Job 14:8
If its roots be old in the earth, and its stock be dead in the dust:

Job 14:10
But man when he shall be dead, and stripped and consumed, I pray you where is he?

Job 14:8
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