Job 14:7-12

New Century Version

⁷ “If a tree is cut down,
    there is hope that it will grow again
    and will send out new branches.
⁸ Even if its roots grow old in the ground,
    and its stump dies in the dirt,
⁹ at the smell of water it will bud
    and put out new shoots like a plant.
¹⁰ But we die, and our bodies are laid in the ground;
    we take our last breath and are gone.
¹¹ Water disappears from a lake,
    and a river loses its water and dries up.
¹² In the same way, we lie down and do not rise again;
    we will not get up or be awakened
    until the heavens disappear.