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.
8. Though its root grow old in the earth,and its stump die in the soil,
9. yet at the scent of water it will budand put out branches like a young plant.
10. But a man dies and is laid low;man breathes his last, and where is he?
11. As waters fail from a lakeand a river wastes away and dries up,