16 To the woman he said,

“I will make your pains in childbearing very severe;
    with painful labor you will give birth to children.(A)
Your desire will be for your husband,
    and he will rule over you.(B)

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19 By the sweat of your brow(A)
    you will eat your food(B)
until you return to the ground,
    since from it you were taken;
for dust you are
    and to dust you will return.”(C)

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For hardship does not spring from the soil,
    nor does trouble sprout from the ground.(A)

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Yet man is born to trouble(A)
    as surely as sparks fly upward.

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