Other translations
New Catholic Bible
If you have children, they will endure calamity; you will beget them solely for groaning. When you stumble, lasting joy prevails; and when you die, a curse is your lot.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
If you have children, calamity will be theirs; you will beget them only for groaning. When you stumble, there is lasting joy; and when you die, a curse is your lot.
Good News Translation®
When you have children, disaster will strike them and you will be left with nothing but sorrow. There will be great joy whenever you stumble, and even after your death you will be cursed.
Wycliffe Bible
And if ye be born, ye shall be born in cursedness; and if ye be dead, your part shall be in cursedness. [And if ye shall be born, in cursing ye shall be born; and if ye shall die, in cursing shall be your part.]
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
When you are born, you are born to a curse; and when you die, a curse is your lot.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
You will beget them only for groaning. When you stumble, there is lasting joy, and when you die, a curse is your lot.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
If you have children, calamity will be theirs; you will beget them only for groaning. When you stumble, there is lasting joy; and when you die, a curse is your lot.
Common English Bible © 2011
When you are born, you are born to a curse, and when you die, you will leave a curse as your legacy.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
If you have children, calamity will be theirs; and if you beget them, it will be only for groaning. When you stumble, there is lasting joy; and when you die, you become a curse.
Revised Standard Version
When you are born, you are born to a curse; and when you die, a curse is your lot.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
If you have children, calamity will be theirs; you will beget them only for groaning. When you stumble, there is lasting joy; and when you die, a curse is your lot.