4 Nothing clean can ever comefrom anything as unclean as human beings.
5 The length of our lives is decided beforehand—the number of months we will live.You have settled it, and it can't be changed.
6 Look away from us and leave us alone;let us enjoy our hard life—if we 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 we die, and that is the end of us;we die, and where are we then?