The ground is cursed because of you.^(A)
You will eat from it by means of painful labor^[a]
all the days of your life.
¹⁸ It will produce thorns and thistles for you,
and you will eat the plants of the field.^(B)
19 You will eat bread^[b] by the sweat of your brow
until you return to the ground,^(C)
since you were taken from it.
For you are dust,
and you will return to dust.”

⁸ In my experience, those who plow injustice
and those who sow trouble^(A) reap the same.^(B)

¹⁷ You produce new witnesses^[a] against me
and multiply your anger toward me.
Hardships assault me, wave after wave.^[b]

³⁵ They conceive trouble^(A) and give birth to evil;
their womb^(B) prepares deception.^(C)

⁵ Indeed, I was guilty when I was born;
I was sinful when my mother conceived me.^(A)

¹⁰ Our lives last^[a] seventy years
or, if we are strong, eighty years.
Even the best of them are^[b] struggle and sorrow;
indeed, they pass quickly and we fly away.^(A)