12 Bible Verses about Travail

My little children, of whom I travail in birth again, until Christ be formed in you,

He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.

Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail.

And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.

And they journeyed from Beth-el; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labor. And it came to pass when she was in hard labor, that the midwife said to her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also. And it came to pass as her soul was in departing (for she died) that she called his name Ben-oni: but his father called him Benjamin.read more.
And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Beth-lehem.

A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.

Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a male child. Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.

Now why dost thou cry aloud? is there no king in thee? hath thy counselor perished? for pangs have taken thee as a woman in travail. Be in pain, and labor to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail: for now shalt thou go forth from the city, and thou shalt dwell in the field, and thou shalt go even to Babylon; there shalt thou be delivered; there the LORD shall redeem thee from the hand of thy enemies.

Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she who travaileth hath brought forth: then the remnant of his brethren shall return to the children of Israel.

For we know that the whole creation groaneth, and travaileth in pain together until now:

For what hath man of all his labor, and of the vexation of his heart, in which he hath labored under the sun?

For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?