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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14 Cursed be the day I was born!(A)
    May the day my mother bore me not be blessed!

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14 Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.

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