Genesis 3:17-24

The Voice

¹⁷     (to the man) Because you followed your wife’s advice
        instead of My command and ate of the tree
    From which I had forbidden you to eat, cursed is the ground.
        For the rest of your life,
    You will fight for every crumb of food
        from the crusty clump of clay I made you from.
¹⁸     As you labor, the ground will produce thorns and thistles,
        and you will eat the plants of the field.
¹⁹     Your brow will sweat for your mouth to taste
        even a morsel of bread until the day you return
    To the very ground I made you from.
        From dust you have come,
    And to dust you shall return.