4. “No one can make something clean from something so dirty.
5. The length of our life has been decided. You alone know how long that is. You have set the limits for us and nothing can change them.
6. So stop watching us; leave us alone, and let us enjoy this hard life until we have put in our time.
7. “There is always hope for a tree. If it is cut down, it can grow again. It will keep sending out new branches.
8. Its roots might grow old in the ground and its stump die in the dirt,
9. but with water, it will grow again. It will grow branches like a new plant.