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,
12. so a man lies down and rises not again;till the heavens are no more he will not awakeor be roused out of his sleep.
13. Oh 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!
14. If a man dies, shall he live again?All the days of my service I would wait,till my renewal should come.
15. You would call, and I would answer you;you would long for the work of your hands.