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"For there is hope for a tree, When it is cut down, that it will sprout again, And its shoots will not fail.

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 its roots grow old in the ground, And its stump dies in the dry soil,

Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;

At the scent of water it will flourish And produce sprigs like a plant.

Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.

"But a man dies and lies prostrate. A person passes away, and where is he?

But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?

"As water evaporates from the sea, And a river becomes parched and dried up,

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:

So a man lies down and does not rise. Until the heavens no longer exist, He will not awake nor be woken from his sleep.

So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.