Yet by the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.

10 [a]But man is sick, and dieth, and man perisheth, and where is he?

11 As the waters pass from the sea, and as the flood decayeth and drieth up,

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Footnotes

  1. Job 14:10 He speaketh not here as though he had not hope of the immortality, but as a man in extreme pain, when reason is overcome by affections and torments.

yet at the scent of water(A) it will bud
    and put forth shoots like a plant.(B)
10 But a man dies and is laid low;(C)
    he breathes his last and is no more.(D)
11 As the water of a lake dries up
    or a riverbed becomes parched and dry,(E)

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