3. Do you fix your eye on such a one?And do you bring me before you for judgment?
4. Who can make a clean thing come from an unclean?No one!
5. Since man’s days are determined,the number of his months is under your control;you have set his limit and he cannot pass it.
6. Look away from him and let him desist,until he fulfills his time like a hired man.
7. “But there is hope for a tree:If it is cut down, it will sprout again,and its new shoots will not fail.
8. Although its roots may grow old in the groundand its stump begins to die in the soil,
9. at the scent of water it will flourishand put forth shoots like a new plant.
10. But man dies and is powerless;he expires – and where is he?
11. As water disappears from the sea,or a river drains away and dries up,
12. so man lies down and does not rise;until the heavens are no more, they will not awakenor arise from their sleep.