“I am accounted wicked,
Why then should I toil in vain?

“He will drop off his unripe grape like the vine,
And will cast off his flower like the olive tree.

“Gold or glass cannot equal it,
Nor can it be exchanged for articles of fine gold.

“If I have put my confidence in gold,
And called fine gold my trust,

“She treats her young cruelly, as if they were not hers;
Though her labor be in vain, she is unconcerned;