3 Lord, do you need to watch me like this?Must you bring me before you to be judged?
4 No one can bring something clean from something dirty.
5 Our time is limited.You have given us only so many months to liveand have set limits we cannot go beyond.
6 So look away from us and leave us aloneuntil we put in our time like a laborer.
7 “If a tree is cut down,there is hope that it will grow againand will send out new branches.
8 Even if its roots grow old in the ground,and its stump dies in the dirt,
9 at the smell of water it will budand put out new shoots like a plant.