3. And dost thou open thine eyes upon such a one and bring me into judgment with thee?
4. Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? No one.
5. Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass.
6. If thou should leave him, he will cease to exist; until then, he shall desire, as a hireling, his day.
7. For there is yet hope for a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again and that its tender branch will not cease.
8. Though its root waxes old in the earth and its trunk is dead in the ground,
9. at the scent of water it will bud and bring forth boughs like a new plant.