A moment in scripture
Job 14:9
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Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
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The surrounding passage
- Job 14:7
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.
- Job 14:8
Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;
- Job 14:10
But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
- Job 14:11
As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.