Man's Death Contrasted with Nature's Hope

Job 14:7-12

For there is hope of a tree, if it bee cut downe, that it will yet sproute, and the branches thereof will not cease.

Though the roote of it waxe olde in the earth, and the stocke thereof be dead in ye ground,

Yet by the sent of water it will bud, and bring foorth boughes like a plant.

But man is sicke, and dyeth, and man perisheth, and where is he?

As the waters passe from the sea, and as the flood decayeth and dryeth vp,

So man sleepeth and riseth not: for hee shall not wake againe, nor be raised from his sleepe till the heauen be no more.