9. but with water, it will grow again. It will grow branches like a new plant.
10. But when a man dies, he becomes weak and sick, and then he is gone!
11. Like a lake that goes dry or a river that loses its source,
12. so people lose their lives, never to live again. The skies will all pass away before they rise from death. The skies will all disappear before anyone wakes up from that sleep!
13. “I wish you would hide me in my grave. I wish you would hide me there, until your anger is gone. Then you could pick a time to remember me.
14. If a man dies, will he live again? If so, I would gladly suffer through this time waiting for my release.
15. God, you would call me, and I would answer you. Then I, the one you made, would be important to you.
16. You would still watch every step I take, but you would not remember my sins.
17. It would be as if you had sealed my sins in a bag. It would be as if you had covered my guilt with plaster.
18. “Mountains fall and crumble away. Large rocks break loose and fall.
19. Water flowing over stones wears them down. Floods wash away the soil on the ground. In the same way, God, you destroy the hope people have.
20. You defeat them completely and then they are gone. You change the way they look and send them away forever to the place of death.