Job 14:4-8

“Who can make the clean out of the unclean? No one!

“Since his days are determined, The number of his months is with You; And You have set his limits so that he cannot pass.

“Look away from him so that he may rest, Until he fulfills his day like a hired worker.

“For there is hope for a tree, When it is cut down, that it will sprout again, And its shoots will not fail.

“Though its roots grow old in the ground, And its stump dies in the dry soil,