“Because you have listened to the voice of your wife
    and have eaten of the tree
^(A)of which I commanded you,
    ‘You shall not eat of it,’
^(B)cursed is the ground because of you;
    ^(C)in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life;
¹⁸ thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you;
    and you shall eat the plants of the field.
¹⁹ By the sweat of your face
    you shall eat bread,
till you return to the ground,
    for out of it you were taken;
^(D)for you are dust,
    and ^(E)to dust you shall return.”

⁵ Thus says the Lord:
“Cursed is the man ^(A)who trusts in man
    and makes flesh his strength,^[a]
    whose heart turns away from the Lord.
^6 (B)He is like a shrub in the desert,
    ^(C)and shall not see any good come.
He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness,
    in ^(D)an uninhabited salt land.

^7 (E)“Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord,
    ^(F)whose trust is the Lord.
^8 (G)He is like a tree planted by water,
    that sends out its roots by the stream,
and does not fear when heat comes,
    for its leaves remain green,
and is not anxious in the year of drought,
    for it does not cease to bear fruit.”