Man's Death Contrasted with Nature's Hope

Job 14:7-12

"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?

Just as water in a lake disappears, as a river shrinks and dries up;

so a person lies down and doesn't arise until the sky no longer exists; it will not awaken, it won't be roused from its sleep.