“May the day of my birth perish,
    and the night that said, ‘A boy is conceived!’(A)

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Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.

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10 Alas, my mother, that you gave me birth,(A)
    a man with whom the whole land strives and contends!(B)
I have neither lent(C) nor borrowed,
    yet everyone curses(D) me.

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10 Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.

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