Job 14:9-11

The Voice

⁹     But even then it needs only the merest whiff of water
        to bud again and put forth shoots like a newly planted sapling.
¹⁰     But not so with humankind.
        The noblest of human beings dies and lies flat.
    Humans die, and where do they go?
¹¹         Just as water evaporates from the sea,
    And riverbeds go parched and dry,