²⁰ “Why is light given to those in misery,
    and life to the bitter of soul,^(A)

14 “Mortals, born of woman,^(A)
    are of few days^(B) and full of trouble.^(C)

¹⁰ Alas, my mother, that you gave me birth,^(A)
    a man with whom the whole land strives and contends!^(B)
I have neither lent^(C) nor borrowed,
    yet everyone curses^(D) me.

3 ^[a]I am the man who has seen affliction^(A)
    by the rod of the Lord’s wrath.^(B)