"As waters fail from a lake and a river wastes away and dries up." The image shifts to water—lakes evaporate, rivers dry. The comparison suggests that human life follows the pattern of water: it appears, flows, and then disappears. The verse extends the meditation on transience by comparing human death to the natural cycles of water. Both are part of the order of nature, yet this universal pattern does not make it less tragic.

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