- 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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- 便求你转眼不看他,使他得歇息。直等他像雇工人完毕他的日子。
- 树若被砍下,还可指望发芽,嫩枝生长不息。
- 其根虽然衰老在地里,干也死在土中。
- 及至得了水气,还要发芽,又长枝条,像新栽的树一样。
- 但人死亡而消灭。他气绝,竟在何处呢。
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