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.
10. But when man shall die and be cut off, and the man shall perish, where shall he be?