Bible Verses About Select Readings: The brevity of life

"A human being, born from a woman, lives a short, trouble-filled life.

He comes up like a flower and withers away, flees like a shadow, doesn't last.

You fix your eyes on a creature like this? You drag him to court with you?

Who can bring what is pure from something impure? No one!

Since his days are fixed in advance, the number of his months is known to you, and you have fixed the limits which he can't cross;

look away from him, and let him be; so that, like a hired worker, he can finish his day in peace.

"For a tree, there is hope that if cut down, it will sprout again, that its shoots will continue to grow.

Even if its roots grow old in the earth and its stump dies in the ground,

yet at the scent of water it will bud and put forth branches like a young plant.

But when a human being grows weak and dies, he expires; and then where is he?