4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?There is not one.
5 Since his days are determined,and the number of his months is with you,and you have appointed his limits that he cannot pass,
6 look away from him and leave him alone,that he may enjoy, like a hired hand, his day.
7 “For there is hope for a tree,if it be cut down, that it will sprout again,and that its shoots will not cease.
8 Though its root grow old in the earth,and its stump die in the soil,
9 yet at the scent of water it will budand put out branches like a young plant.
10 But a man dies and is laid low;man breathes his last, and where is he?