Job 14:8

Seeing his days are determined,

the number of his months is with you,

and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass.

Look away from him, that he may rest,

until he accomplishes, as a hireling, his day.

“For there is hope for a tree if it is cut down,

that it will sprout again,

that the tender branch of it will not cease.

yet through the scent of water it will bud,

and sprout boughs like a plant.

But man dies, and is laid low.

Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?

As the waters fail from the sea,

and the river wastes and dries up,