6. So leave us alone and let us rest!We are like hired hands, so let us finish our work in peace.
7. “Even a tree has more hope!If it is cut down, it will sprout againand grow new branches.
8. Though its roots have grown old in the earthand its stump decays,
9. at the scent of water it will budand sprout again like a new seedling.
10. “But when people die, their strength is gone.They breathe their last, and then where are they?
11. As water evaporates from a lakeand a river disappears in drought,