4. “Who can bring a clean thing from an unclean thing? No one!
5. If his days are determined, the number of his months is with you; you have appointed his boundaries, and he cannot cross them.
6. Look away from him, and let him desist until he enjoys his days like a laborer.
7. “Indeed, there is hope for a tree: if it is cut down, then it will sprout again, and its new shoots will not cease;
8. though its root grows old in the earth, and its stump dies in the dust,
9. at the scent of water it will bud, and it will put forth branches like a young plant.
10. “But a man dies, and he dwindles away; thus a human being passes away, and where is he?