⁸ though its root grows old in the earth,
and its stump dies in the dust,
⁹ at^[a] the scent of water it will bud,
and it will put forth branches like a young plant.
¹⁰ “But^[b] a man dies, and he dwindles away;
thus^[c] a human being passes away, and where is he?^[d]