- "Turn Your gaze from him that he may rest, Until he fulfills his day like a hired man.
- "For there is hope for a tree, When it is cut down, that it will sprout again, And its shoots will not fail.
- "Though its roots grow old in the ground And its stump dies in the dry soil,
- At the scent of water it will flourish And put forth sprigs like a plant.
- "But man dies and lies prostrate Man expires, and where is he?
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- Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.
- For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
- Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;
- Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
- But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
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