Job 14:5-12

5If the number of his days and the number of his months are determined by you, and you set his limit, then he cannot go past it.

6Look away from him, and he will cease to be. Meanwhile, he loves life as a laborer loves work.

7There is hope for a tree when it is cut down. It will sprout again. Its shoots will not stop sprouting.

8If its roots grow old in the ground and its stump dies in the soil,

9merely a scent of water will make it sprout and grow branches like a plant.

10But a human dies and is powerless. A person breathes his last breath, and where is he?

11⌞As⌟ water drains out of a lake, or ⌞as⌟ a river dries up completely,

12so each person lies down and does not rise until the heavens cease to exist. He does not wake up. He is not awakened from his sleep.