4 Who can make something pure out of the impure? No one!
5 Since his days are determined, the number of his months is with You, You have set his limits, which he cannot exceed.
6 Look away from him and let him alone, until he fulfills his time like a hired laborer.
7 “At least there is hope for a tree— if it is cut down it will sprout again, and its shoots will not cease.
8 Though its roots grow old in the earth and its stump dies in the dry ground,
9 at the scent of water it will bud and sprout sprigs like a new plant.
10 But man dies and is powerless. Man expires—and where is he?