“Cursed^(B) is the ground^(C) because of you;
    through painful toil^(D) you will eat food from it
    all the days of your life.^(E)

¹⁷ You bring new witnesses against me^(A)
    and increase your anger toward me;^(B)
    your forces come against me wave upon wave.^(C)

³⁵ They conceive trouble^(A) and give birth to evil;^(B)
    their womb fashions deceit.”

⁵ Surely I was sinful^(A) at birth,^(B)
    sinful from the time my mother conceived me.

³ Even from birth the wicked go astray;
    from the womb they are wayward, spreading lies.

¹⁰ Our days may come to seventy years,^(A)
    or eighty,^(B) if our strength endures;
yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow,^(C)
    for they quickly pass, and we fly away.^(D)

⁸ Whoever sows injustice reaps calamity,^(A)
    and the rod they wield in fury will be broken.^(B)