3 Even on such a one you fix your eyes, and you bring me into judgment with you.
4 “Who can bring a clean thing from an unclean thing? No one!
5 If his days are determined, the number of his months is with you; you have appointed his boundaries, and he cannot cross them.
6 Look away from him, and let him desist until he enjoys his days like a laborer.
7 “Indeed, there is hope for a tree: if it is cut down, then it will sprout again, and its new shoots will not cease;
8 though its root grows old in the earth, and its stump dies in the dust,
9 at the scent of water it will bud, and it will put forth branches like a young plant.