Verse Lens · Context pointer
Job 14:9 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 9. 9Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
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Role in This Section
Job turns or qualifies the speech with “Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant” inside A Tree's Renewal Sharpens Job's Question About Human Hope.
Read It With
- Job 14:7–14:15
Read Job 14:9 inside Job 14:7–14:15. Job turns or qualifies the speech with “Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant” inside A Tree's Renewal Sharpens Job's Question About Human Hope. The full unit establishes: Job contrasts a cut tree that sprouts again with a human who dies, then imagines being hidden in Sheol until God calls and longs for the work of his hands.
Why It Needs Context
Job turns or qualifies the speech with “Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant” inside A Tree's Renewal Sharpens Job's Question About Human Hope. Its force depends on the complete movement and outcome of Job 14:7–14:15; the isolated line is connective rather than a complete teaching claim.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Job 14:7–14:15 — A Tree's Renewal Sharpens Job's Question About Human HopeSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
These are the sources used directly for this lens. Language, grammar, disagreements, and the complete source shelf remain attached to the full thought-unit research record.
Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Job 14:7–14:15, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Job
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a complete apparatus or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Job.xml, OSIS 14:7–14:15
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