Commentaries:Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Job 14:9
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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