¹⁴ ·Let there be a curse on [Cursed be] the day I was born;
    let there be no blessing on the day when my mother gave birth to me.
¹⁵ ·Let there be a curse on [Cursed be] the man
    who brought my father the news:
“You have a son!”
    This made my father very glad.
¹⁶ Let that man be like the towns
    the Lord ·destroyed [overturned] without ·pity [mercy; Gen. 18].
Let him hear loud crying in the morning
    and battle cries at noon,
¹⁷ because he did not kill me ·before I was born [^Lin the womb; 1:5].
    Then my mother would have been my grave;
    she would have stayed pregnant forever.
¹⁸ Why did I have to come out of ·my mother’s body [the womb]?
    All I have known is trouble and sorrow,
    and my ·life [days] will end in ·shame [humiliation; Job 3].