3. Do You really take notice of one like this?Will You bring me into judgment against You?
4. Who can produce something pure from what is impure?No one!
5. Since man’s days are determinedand the number of his months depends on You,and since You have set limits he cannot pass,
6. look away from him and let him restso that he can enjoy his day like a hired hand.
7. There is hope for a tree:If it is cut down, it will sprout again,and its shoots will not die.
8. If its roots grow old in the groundand its stump starts to die in the soil,
9. the smell of water makes it thriveand produce twigs like a sapling.
10. But a man dies and fades away;he breathes his last — where is he?
11. As water disappears from the seaand a river becomes parched and dry,