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For there is hope of a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and its shoot will not cease.

Though its root becomes old in the earth, and its stump dies in the dust,

at the scent of water it will bud and bring forth branches like a plant.

But man dies and is cut off, and man expires; and where is he?

As the waters go away from the sea, and a river wastes away and dries up,

even so man lies down and does not rise until the heavens are no more, they shall not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.