Contradictions and Paradoxes in Job 14:9

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Job 14:9 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Job 14:9. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to the author of the book, Job, this means that even when something seems dead, like a tree, with a little bit of water, it can come back to life and grow again. It reminds Christians that there is always hope, and good things can happen even when things seem hard.

Job 14:9: [Yet] through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.

Contradiction with Ecclesiastes 9:5

The dead know not anything, contradicting the revival and hope suggested in Job 14:9.

Ecclesiastes 9:5: For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

Contradiction with Isaiah 40:7

Grass withers and flowers fade without revival, contradicting the imagery of a sprouting plant in Job 14:9.

Isaiah 40:7: The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people [is] grass.

Contradiction with Psalm 88:10

Questions whether the dead will rise or be revived, countering the notion of revival in Job 14:9.

Psalm 88:10: Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise [and] praise thee? Selah.

Contradiction with Jeremiah 17:13

Those who forsake the Lord shall be written in the earth, implying no revival, unlike the hope of renewed life in Job 14:9.

Jeremiah 17:13: O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, [and] they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.
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