7"For there is hope for a tree,
if it be cut down, that it will sprout again,
and that its shoots will not cease.
8Though its root grow old in the earth,
and its stump die in the ground,
9yet at the scent of water it will bud
and put forth branches like a young plant.
10But man dies, and is laid low;
man breathes his last, and where is he?
11As waters fail from a lake,
and a river wastes away and dries up,
12so man lies down and rises not again;
till the heavens are no more he will not awake,
or be roused out of his sleep.
13Oh that you would hide me in Sheol,
that you would conceal me until your wrath be past,
that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!
14If a man die, shall he live again?
All the days of my service I would wait, till my release should come.
15You would call, and I would answer you;
you would long for the work of your hands.
16For then you would number my steps,
you would not keep watch over my sin;
17my transgression would be sealed up in a bag,
and you would cover over my iniquity.
18"But the mountain falls and crumbles away,
and the rock is removed from its place;
19the waters wear away the stones;
the torrents wash away the soil of the earth;
so you destroy the hope of man.
20You prevail for ever against him, and he passes;
you change his countenance, and sendest him away.
21His sons come to honour, and he does not know it;
they are brought low, and he perceives it not.
22He feels only the pain of his own body,
and he mourns only for himself."
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