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.
10 But we die, and our bodies are laid in the ground;we take our last breath and are gone.
11 Water disappears from a lake,and a river loses its water and dries up.