5 If the number of his daysand the number of his months are determined by you,and you set his limit,then he cannot go past it.
6 Look away from him, and he will cease to be.Meanwhile, he loves life as a laborer loves work.
7 There is hope for a tree when it is cut down.It will sprout again.Its shoots will not stop sprouting.
8 If its roots grow old in the groundand its stump dies in the soil,
9 merely a scent of water will make it sproutand grow branches like a plant.
10 But a human dies and is powerless.A person breathes his last breath, and where is he?
11 ⌊As⌋ water drains out of a lake,or ⌊as⌋ a river dries up completely,