5 A person’s days are determined;
    you have decreed the number of his months
    and have set limits he cannot exceed.
6 So look away from him and let him alone,
    till he has put in his time like a hired labourer.

7 ‘At least there is hope for a tree:
    if it is cut down, it will sprout again,
    and its new shoots will not fail.

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