Job 14:9
at the scent of water it will bud and put forth twigs like a sapling.
BSB
ASV
Yet through the scent of water it will bud, And put forth boughs like a plant.
KJV
Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
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 delicate and poetic. It is designed to denote a gentle and pleasant contact - not a rush of water - by which the tree is made to live. It inhales, so to speak, the vital influence from the water - as we are refreshed and revived by grateful odorifles when we are ready to faint.
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Through
Ezekiel 19:10Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard, planted by the water; it was fruitful and full of branches because of the abundant waters.
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You uprooted a vine from Egypt; You drove out the nations and transplanted it.
For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks and fountains and springs that flow through the valleys and hills;
They spread out like palm groves, like gardens beside a stream, like aloes the LORD has planted, like cedars beside the waters.
Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a tower. Then he rented it out to some…
a land where you will eat food without scarcity, where you will lack nothing; a land whose rocks are iron and whose hills are ready to be mined for copper.