Genesis 3:17-19

New International Reader's Version

“So I am putting a curse on the ground because of what you did.
    All the days of your life you will have to work hard.
It will be painful for you to get food from the ground. ¹⁸ You will eat plants from the field,
    even though the ground produces thorns and prickly weeds.
¹⁹ You will have to work hard and sweat a lot
    to produce the food you eat.
You were made out of the ground.
    You will return to it when you die.
You are dust,
    and you will return to dust.”