7. ‘At least there is hope for a tree:if it is cut down, it will sprout again,and its new shoots will not fail.
8. Its roots may grow old in the groundand its stump die in the soil,
9. yet at the scent of water it will budand put forth shoots like a plant.
10. But a man dies and is laid low;he breathes his last and is no more.
11. As the water of a lake dries upor a river bed becomes parched and dry,
12. so he lies down and does not rise;till the heavens are no more, people will not awakeor be roused from their sleep.