5 Our time on earth is brief;the number of our daysis already decided by you.
6 Why don't you leave us aloneand let us find some happinesswhile we toil and labour?
7 When a tree is chopped down,there is always the hopethat it will sprout again.
8 Its roots and stump may rot,
9 but at the touch of water,fresh twigs shoot up.
10 Humans are different—we die, and that's the end.
11 We are like streams and lakesafter the water has gone;