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?
11. As water evaporates from the sea and a river drains away and dries up,
12. so a person lies down and does not rise; until the heavens are no more, people will not awake, or be roused from their sleep.
13. “Oh that You would hide me in Sheol, and conceal me until Your wrath has passed! Oh that You would set a time for me and then remember me!
14. If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard labor I will wait until my relief comes.