KJV ORIGINAL
Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
Close to the original. Clear modern English.
✦ MADE SIMPLE
Yet when it smells water, it will sprout new growth and put out branches like a young plant.
⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE
Job is saying that even a cut-down tree can come back to life when it gets water, showing nature's amazing power to renew itself.
📚 Historical Context
Job is speaking during his intense suffering, comparing human mortality to trees. In the ancient Middle East, people were very familiar with how seemingly dead trees could spring back to life after drought when the rains returned. This was part of Job's larger meditation on death and whether humans, unlike trees, have any hope of renewal after they die.
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