^{14 Ref} Cursed `is' the day in which I was born, The day that my mother bare me, Let it not be blessed!

^{15 Ref} Cursed `is' the man who bore tidings `to' my father, saying, `Born to thee hath been a child -- a male,' Making him very glad!

^{16 Ref} Then hath that man been as the cities, That Jehovah overthrew, and repented not, And he hath heard a cry at morning, And a shout at time of noon.

^{17 Ref} Because he hath not put me to death from the womb, And my mother is to me -- my grave, And her womb a pregnancy age-during.

^{18 Ref} Why `is' this? from the womb I have come out, To see labour and sorrow, Yea, consumed in shame are my days!