Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
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Gill's Exposition
Yet through the scent of water it will bud,.... As soon as it smells it, or perceives it, is sensible of it, or partakes of its efficacy; denoting both how speedily, and how easily, at once as it…
Barnes' Notes
Yet through the scent of water - The word here rendered “scent” (ריח rêyach) means properly the odor or fragrance which anything exhales or emits; Son 2:13; Son 7:13; Gen 27:27. The idea is very…
We have seen what Job has to say concerning life; let us now see what he has to say concerning death, which his thoughts were very much conversant with, now that he was sick and sore. It is not…
Cambridge Bible
like a plant i. e. a fresh and new plant; it begins a new life again.
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