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at the ·smell [scent] of water it will bud
    and put out new ·shoots [boughs] like a plant.
10 But ·we [L mortals] die, and ·our bodies are laid in the ground [L dwindle away];
    ·we take our last breath [L humans expire] and are ·gone [L no more; C unlike trees, humans do not come back to life].
11 Water disappears from a ·lake [sea],
    and a river ·loses its water and dries up [L dries up and withers away].

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yet at the scent of water(A) it will bud
    and put forth shoots like a plant.(B)
10 But a man dies and is laid low;(C)
    he breathes his last and is no more.(D)
11 As the water of a lake dries up
    or a riverbed becomes parched and dry,(E)

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