5. Our time is limited.You have given us only so many months to liveand have set limits we cannot go beyond.
6. So look away from us and leave us aloneuntil we put in our time like a laborer.
7. “If a tree is cut down,there is hope that it will grow againand will send out new branches.
8. Even if its roots grow old in the ground,and its stump dies in the dirt,
9. at the smell of water it will budand put out new shoots like a plant.
10. But we die, and our bodies are laid in the ground;we take our last breath and are gone.
11. Water disappears from a lake,and a river loses its water and dries up.
12. In the same way, we lie down and do not rise again;we will not get up or be awakeneduntil the heavens disappear.
13. “I wish you would hide me in the grave;hide me until your anger is gone.I wish you would set a timeand then remember me!
14. Will the dead live again?All my days are a struggle;I will wait until my change comes.