King James Version (KJV)

Job 14:9

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

Verse in context — Job 14

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.

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.

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

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

A poetic exploration of suffering, faith, and God’s sovereignty.