ISV(i)
7 Death is Certain“There is hope for the tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its shoots won’t stop growing.
8 Even if its roots have grown ancient in the earth, and its stump begins to rot in the ground,
9 the presence of water will make it to bud so that it sprouts new branches like a young plant.
10 “But when a person dies and wastes away, when a person breathes his last, where will he be?
11 As water disappears from the sea, or water evaporates from a river,
12 so also a person lies down and does not get up; they won’t awaken until the heavens are no more, nor will they arise from their sleep.”