Man's Death Contrasted with Nature's Hope

Job 14:7-12

For there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its tender shoots will not fail.

If its roots grow old in the ground and its stump dies in the soil,

at the scent of water it will bud and put forth twigs like a sapling.

But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last, and where is he?

As water disappears from the sea and a river becomes parched and dry,

so a man lies down and does not rise. Until the heavens are no more, he will not be awakened or roused from sleep.