2. He comes forth like a flower and withers. He flees like a shadow and does not continue.
3. Yet on such a one You open Your eyes, and bring me to right-ruling with Yourself!
4. Who brings the clean out of the unclean? No one!
5. Since his days are decided, the number of his months is with You, You have appointed his bounds which he does not pass over.
6. Look away from him and let him rest, till like a hired man he enjoys his day.
7. For there is expectancy for a tree, if it is cut down, that it does sprout again, and that its tender branch does not cease.
8. Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stump dies in the ground,
9. at the scent of water it buds and brings forth foliage like a plant.