4. Who can make pure from impure?Nobody.
5. If our days are fixed, the number of our months with you,you set a statute and we can’t exceed it.
6. Look away from us that we may rest,until we are satisfied like a worker at day’s end.
7. Indeed there is hope for a tree.If it’s cut down and still sproutingand its shoots don’t fail,
8. if its roots age in the groundand its stump dies in the dust,