Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Job 14:9

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9. scent —exhalation, which, rather than the humidity of water, causes the tree to germinate. In the antithesis to man the tree is personified, and volition is poetically ascribed to it. like a plant —"as if newly planted" [UMBREIT]; not as if trees and plants were a different species. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-10" class="com-number"