- So look away from him and let him alone, till he has put in his time like a hired man.
- "At least there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its new shoots will not fail.
- Its roots may grow old in the ground and its stump die in the soil,
- yet at the scent of water it will bud and put forth shoots like a plant.
- But man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last and is no more.
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- 便求你轉眼不看他、使他得歇息、直等他像雇工人完畢他的日子。
- 樹若被砍下、還可指望發芽、嫩枝生長不息、
- 其根雖然衰老在地裡、榦也死在土中.
- 及至得了水氣、還要發芽、又長枝條、像新栽的樹一樣。
- 但人死亡而消滅.他氣絕、竟在何處呢。
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