6. "Turn Your gaze from him that he may rest, Until he fulfills his day like a hired man.
7. "For there is hope for a tree, When it is cut down, that it will sprout again, And its shoots will not fail.
8. "Though its roots grow old in the ground And its stump dies in the dry soil,
9. At the scent of water it will flourish And put forth sprigs like a plant.
10. "But man dies and lies prostrate. Man expires, and where is he?
11. "As water evaporates from the sea, And a river becomes parched and dried up,
12. So man lies down and does not rise. Until the heavens are no longer, He will not awake nor be aroused out of his sleep.