Job 14:6-8

New Catholic Bible

⁶ Turn your gaze away from him and leave him alone
    so that, like a hired laborer, he may complete his days.
⁷ “At least for a tree there is always hope:
    if it is cut down, it may sprout once again,
    and its new shoots may burst with life.
⁸ Although its roots age in the earth
    and its stump dies in the ground,