John Trapp on Job 14:9

Verſe 9. Yet through the ſent of water it will bud] Heb. from the ſmell of waters; a ſweet Metaphor, ſaith Merlin, ſenſe being attributed to things ſenſeleſſe, as ſmelling to the fire, Judg. 16.9. and here to trees, which are ſaid to turn themſelves and their roots after a ſort, to take in the ſmel of the water, and thereby refreſhed to bud and bring forth boughs, like a plant. This is check to thoſe that live under the droppings of the ordinances, and yet are like the Cypreſs-tre[illegible: 1 letter], which the more it is watered, proves the leſſe fruitful, and being once out down, it never ſprings again: whence the Romans, who believed not a reſurrection, were wont to place a Cypreſſe-tree at the threſhold of the houſe of death, as Pliny and Ser[illegible: 1 letter]i[illegible: 1 letter]s tell us.Serv. in Virg. l. 4. Plin. lib. 16. cap. 32.