- 便求你转眼不看他,使他得歇息。直等他像雇工人完毕他的日子。
 - 树若被砍下,还可指望发芽,嫩枝生长不息。
 - 其根虽然衰老在地里,干也死在土中。
 - 及至得了水气,还要发芽,又长枝条,像新栽的树一样。
 - 但人死亡而消灭。他气绝,竟在何处呢。
			
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- Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.
 - For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
 - Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;
 - Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
 - But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
			
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