The ground is cursed because of you.^(A)
You will eat from it by means of painful labour^[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)

¹⁰ You soften it with showers and bless its growth,
soaking its furrows and levelling its ridges.^(A)

⁶ I will make it a wasteland.^(A)
It will not be pruned or weeded;
thorns and briars will grow up.^(B)
I will also give orders to the clouds
that rain should not fall on it.