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Job 14:9 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" yet through the scent of water it will bud, and sprout boughs like a plant. "

Job 14:9

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7 “For there is hope for a tree if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, that the tender branch of it will not cease.

8 Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stock dies in the ground,

9 yet through the scent of water it will bud, and sprout boughs like a plant.

10 But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?

11 As the waters fail from the sea, and the river wastes and dries up,

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Jeremiah 17:8

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"For he will be as a tree planted by the waters, who spreads out its roots by the river, and will not fear when heat comes, but its leaf will be green, and will not be concerned in the year of drought. It won’t cease from yielding fruit."

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Hosea 14:6

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"His branches will spread, and his beauty will be like the olive tree, and his fragrance like Lebanon."

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Psalms 1:3

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"He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that produces its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper."

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Job 18:16

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"His roots will be dried up beneath. His branch will be cut off above."

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Isaiah 1:30

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"For you shall be as an oak whose leaf fades, and as a garden that has no water."

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Romans 11:17-24

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"But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became partaker with them of the root and of the richness of the olive tree,"

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From This Chapter

Job 14:1

"“Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble."

Job 14:2

"He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue."

Job 14:3

"Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?"

Job 14:4

"Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one."

Job 14:5

"Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass."

Job 14:6

"Look away from him, that he may rest, until he accomplishes, as a hireling, his day."

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