¹⁸ Pride was not created for human beings
    or violent anger for those born of women.

40 Hard work was created for everyone,
    and a heavy yoke is laid on the children of Adam,
from the day they come forth from their mother’s womb
    until the day they return to^[a] the mother of all the living.^[b](A)

⁷ For they had mistreated him,
    who even in the womb had been consecrated a prophet,
to pluck up and ruin and destroy
    and likewise to build and to plant.^(A)

²² And now bless the God of all,
    who everywhere works great wonders,
who exalts our days from birth^[a]
    and deals with us according to his mercy.^(A)