Job 14:7-13 - When A Tree Is Chopped Down

⁷ For there is hope of a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and its tender branch will not cease. ⁸ Though its root becomes old in the earth, and its stump dies in the dust, ⁹ yet at the scent of water it will bud and bring forth branches like a plant. ¹⁰ But man dies and is cut off; and man expires, and where is he? ¹¹ As the waters fail from the sea, and a river falls away and dries up, ¹² so man lies down and does not rise. Till the heavens are no more, they shall not awake, nor be awakened out of their sleep.

¹³ Who will grant that You would hide me in the grave, that You would keep me secret, until Your wrath is past, that You would set me a fixed time and remember me?