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

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14 “Mortals, born of woman,(A)
    are of few days(B) and full of trouble.(C)

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In vain you rise early
    and stay up late,
toiling for food(A) to eat—
    for he grants sleep(B) to[a] those he loves.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 127:2 Or eat— / for while they sleep he provides for

18 For with much wisdom comes much sorrow;(A)
    the more knowledge, the more grief.(B)

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