9. at the scent of water, it will budand produce sprouts like a plant.
10. But a human dies and lies there;a person expires, and where is he?
11. Water vanishes from the sea;a river dries up completely.
12. But a human lies down and doesn’t riseuntil the heavens cease;they don’t get up and awaken from sleep.
13. I wish you would hide me in the underworld,conceal me until your anger passes,set a time for me, and remember me.
14. If people die, will they live again?All the days of my service I would waituntil my restoration took place.
15. You would call, and I would answer you;you would long for your handiwork.
16. Though you now number my steps,you would not keep a record of my sin.
17. My rebellion is sealed in a bag;you would cover my sin.
18. But an eroding mountain breaks up,and rock is displaced.
19. Water wears away boulders;floods carry away soil;you destroy a people’s hope.
20. You overpower them relentlessly, and they die;you change their appearance and send them away.
21. Their children achieve honor, and they don’t know it;their children become insignificant, and they don’t see it.
22. They only feel the pain of their body,and they mourn for themselves.