¹⁶ then I will do this to you: I will bring on you sudden terror, wasting diseases and fever^(A) that will destroy your sight and sap your strength.^(B) You will plant seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.^(C)

³⁰ You will be pledged to be married to a woman, but another will take her and rape her.^(A) You will build a house, but you will not live in it.^(B) You will plant a vineyard, but you will not even begin to enjoy its fruit.^(C)

³⁸ You will sow much seed in the field but you will harvest little,^(A) because locusts^(B) will devour^(C) it.

³⁷ Thus the saying ‘One sows and another reaps’^(A) is true.