4 Nothing clean can ever comefrom anything as unclean as human beings.
5 The length of their lives is decided beforehand —the number of months they will live.You have settled it, and it can't be changed.
6 Look away from them and leave them alone;let them enjoy their hard life — if they can.
7 There is hope for a tree that has been cut down;it can come back to life and sprout.
8 Even though its roots grow old,and its stump dies in the ground,
9 with water it will sprout like a young plant.
10 But people die, and that is the end of them;they die, and where are they then?