2 He comes forth like a flower and withers;he flees like a shadow and does not continue.
3 Do You open Your eyes on such a one,and bring me into judgment with You?
4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?There is no one.
5 Seeing his days are determined,the number of his months are with You;You have appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
6 turn from him, that he may rest,until he, as a hired man, finishes his day.
7 “For there is hope for a tree,if it is cut down, that it will sprout again,and that its tender shoots will not cease.
8 Though its root may grow old in the earth,and its stump may die in the ground,