Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Job 14:9
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Job14:9
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.
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