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“Even a tree has more hope!
    If it is cut down, it will sprout again
    and grow new branches.
Though its roots have grown old in the earth
    and its stump decays,
at the scent of water it will bud
    and sprout again like a new seedling.

10 “But when people die, their strength is gone.
    They breathe their last, and then where are they?
11 As water evaporates from a lake
    and a river disappears in drought,
12 people are laid to rest and do not rise again.
    Until the heavens are no more, they will not wake up
    nor be roused from their sleep.

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“For there is hope for a tree,
    if it be cut down, that it will sprout again,
    and that its shoots will not cease.
Though its root grow old in the earth,
    and (A)its stump die in the soil,
yet at the scent of water it will bud
    and put out (B)branches like a young plant.
10 But a man dies and is laid low;
    man breathes his last, and (C)where is he?
11 (D)As waters fail from a lake
    and a river wastes away and dries up,
12 so a man lies down and rises not again;
    till (E)the heavens are no more he will not awake
    or be (F)roused out of his sleep.

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