2. He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down: he flees also as a shadow, and continues not.
3. And do you open your eyes upon such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?
4. Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? no one.
5. Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with you, you have appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
6. Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.
7. For there is hope for a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender shoots thereof will not cease.
8. Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stump dies in the ground;
9. Yet at the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth branches like a plant.
10. But man dies, and wastes away: yea, man expires, and where is he?
11. As the waters fail from the sea, and the river decays and dries up:
12. So man lies down, and rises not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
13. O that you would hide me in the grave, that you would conceal me, until your wrath is 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 appointed time will I wait, till my change comes.
15. You shall call, and I will answer you: you will have a desire to the work of your hands.