Strong's G4192 πόνος (ponos)

And it came to pass on the third day, when they were in pain, the two sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city securely, and slew every male.

And Joseph called the name of the firstborn, Manasseh; For God, said he, has made me forget all my toils, and all my father’s house.

And it came to pass in that length of time, that Moses having grown, went out to his brethren the sons of Israel: and having noticed their distress, he sees an Egyptian smiting a certain Hebrew of his brethren the children of Israel.

There shall not be trouble in Jacob, Neither shall sorrow be seen in Israel: The Lord his God is with him, The glories of rulers are in him.

A nation which thou knowest not shall eat the produce of thy land, and all thy labors; and thou shalt be injured and crushed always.

For sin is as divination; idols bring on pain and grief. Because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, the Lord also shall reject thee from being king over Israel.

If there should be famine, if there should be death, because there should be blasting, locust, or if there be mildew, and if their enemy oppress them in anyone of their cities, with regard to every calamity, every trouble,

And the battle prevailed against Saul, and the archers hit him with bows and arrows, and they were wounded of the bows.

If there should be famine upon the land, if there should be death, a pestilent wind and blight; if there should be locust and caterpillar, and if the enemy should harass them before their cities: in whatever plague and whatever distress they may be;

Because it shut not up the gates of my mother’s womb, For so it would have removed sorrow from my eyes.

Yet now that pain has come upon thee, and touched thee, thou art troubled.

For labor cannot by any means come out of the earth, Nor shall trouble spring out of the mountains:

Will a wise man give for answer a mere breath of wisdom? And does he fill up the pain of his belly,

Behold, he has travailed with unrighteousness, He has conceived trouble, and brought forth iniquity.

His trouble shall return on his own head, And his unrighteousness shall come down on his own crown.

Whose mouth is full of cursing, and bitterness, and fraud: Under his tongue are trouble and pain.

Thou seest it; for thou dost observe trouble and wrath, To deliver them into thy hands: The poor has been left to thee; Thou wast a helper to the orphan.

And he gave their fruit to the canker worm, And their labors to the locust.

And smote every firstborn in the land of Egypt; The firstfruits of their labors in the tents of Ham.

As for the days of our years, in them are seventy years; And if men should be in strength, eighty years: And the greater part of them would be labor and trouble; For weakness overtakes us, and we shall be chastened.

He smote also every firstborn of their land, The firstfruits of all their labor.

And gave them the lands of the heathen; And they inherited the labors of the people;

Let his creditor exact all that belongs to him: And let strangers spoil his labors.

Thou shalt eat the labors of thy hands: Blessed art thou, and it shall be well with thee.

Honor the Lord with thy just labors, And give him the first of thy fruits of righteousness:

Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, And thy labors come into the houses of strangers;

A man who labors, labors for himself, and drives from him his own ruin.

For their heart meditates falsehoods, And their lips speak mischiefs.

that they may forget their poverty, and may not remember their troubles any more.

Why should ye be smitten anymore, transgressing more and more? the whole head is pained, and the whole heart sad.

Then I said, I have labored in vain, I have given my strength for vanity and for nothing: therefore is my judgment with the Lord, and my labor before my God.

He bears our sins, and is pained for us: yet we accounted him to be in trouble, and in suffering, and in affliction.

the Lord also is pleased to take away from the travail of his soul, to show him light, and to form him with understanding; to justify the just one who serves many well; and he shall bear their sins.

None speaks justly, neither is there true judgment: they trust in vanities, and speak empty words; for they conceive trouble, and bring forth iniquity.

behold, my servants shall exult with joy, but ye shall cry for the sorrow of your heart, and shall howl for the vexation of your spirit.

They shall by no means build, and others inhabit; and they shall by no means plant, and others eat: for as the days of the tree of life shall be the days of my people, they shall long enjoy the fruits of their labors.

Before she that travailed brought forth, before the travail pain came on, she escaped it and brought forth a male.

Cleanse thy heart from wickedness, O Jerusalem, that thou mayest be saved: how long will thy grievous thoughts be within thee?

For a voice of one publishing from Dan shall come, and trouble out of Mount Ephraim shall be heard of.

As a cistern cools water, so her wickedness cools her, ungodliness and misery shall be heard in her, as continually before her.

If I go forth into the plain, then behold the slain by the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold the distress of famine! for priest and prophet have gone to a land which they knew not.

And I will give all the strength of this city, and all the labors of it, and all the treasures of the king of Judah, into the hands of his enemies, and they shall bring them to Babylon.

Why is it that I came forth of the womb to see troubles and distresses, and my days are spent in shame?

Whereas thou hast said, Alas! alas! for the Lord has laid a grievous trouble upon me; I lay down in groaning, I found no rest;

And they shall deal with thee in hatred, and shall take all the fruits of thy labors and thy toils, and thou shalt be naked and bare: and the shame of thy fornication shall be exposed: and thy ungodliness and thy fornication

And Ephraim said, Nevertheless I am rich, I have found refreshment to myself. None of his labors shall be found available to him, by reason of the sins which he has committed.

Neither shouldest thou have gone into the gates of the people in the day of their troubles; nor yet shouldest thou have looked upon their gathering in the day of their destruction, nor shouldest thou have attacked their host in the day of their perishing.

Wherefore hast thou shown me troubles and griefs to look upon, misery and ungodliness? judgment is before me, and the judge receives a reward.

His eye is too pure to behold evil doings, and to look upon grievous afflictions: wherefore dost thou look upon despisers? wilt thou be silent when the ungodly swallows up the just?

And I will bring a sword upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the wine, and upon the oil, and all that the earth produces, and upon the men, and upon the cattle, and upon all the labors of their hands.

And Haggai answered and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, saith the Lord; and so are all the works of their hands: and whosoever shall approach them, shall be defiled because of their early burdens: they shall be pained because of their toils; and ye have hated him that reproved in the gates.

And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain,

And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.

And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

Therefore the king of Egypt rose up against them, and dealt subtly with them, and brought them low with laboring in brick, and made them slaves.

For our brethren, who now have suffered a short pain, are dead under God’s covenant of everlasting life: but thou, through the judgment of God, shalt receive just punishment for thy pride.

But for all this his pains would not cease: for the just judgment of God was come upon him: therefore despairing of his health, he wrote unto the Jews the letter underwritten, containing the form of a supplication, after this manner:

it surely also and manifestly has the rule over the affections which are contrary to justice, such as malice; and of those which are hindrances to manliness, as wrath, and pain, and fear.

For all these, contemning pains even unto death, by this contempt, demonstrated that reasoning has command over the passions.

Of the passions, pleasure and pain are the two most comprehensive; and they also by nature refer to the soul.

And there are many attendant affections surrounding pleasure and pain.

And before pain is fear; and after pain, sorrow.

Wrath is an affection, common to pleasure and to pain, if anyone will pay attention when it comes upon him.

As pleasure and pain are, therefore, two growths of the body and the soul, so there are many offshoots of these passions.

Yet it instructs us in temperance, so that we are superior to all pleasures and lusts; and it exercises us in manliness, so that we cheerfully undergo every grievance.

But he endured the pains, and despised the cruelty, and persevered through the indignities;

and knowing that it is a blessed thing to endure all kinds of hardships for virtue, would not, for the sake of religion, master his passion?

For I lighten my suffering by the pleasures which are connected with virtue.

A great favor thou bestowest upon us, O tyrant, by enabling us to manifest our adherence to the law by means of nobler sufferings.

And he, while tormented, said, O period good and holy, in which, for the sake of religion, we brothers have been called to the contest of pain, and have not been conquered.

If then, the seven brethren despised troubles even unto death, it is confessed on all sides that righteous reasoning is absolute master over the passions.

And it is impossible to overlook the leadership of reflection: for it gained the victory over both passions and troubles.

O thou mother, who wast tried at this time with bitterer pangs than those of parturition!

And on this account ye ought to bear every affliction because of God.

For it is unreasonable that they who know religion should not stand up against troubles.

Knowing that religious reasoning is lord of the passions, and those not only inward but outward.

Whence those persons giving up their bodies to pains for the sake of religion, were not only admired by men, but were deemed worthy of a divine portion.

For glorious is the fruit of good labors: And the root of wisdom shall never fall away.

Then shall the righteous man stand in great boldness Before the face of such as have afflicted him, And made no account of his labors.

And if a man love righteousness, Her labors are virtues: For she teacheth temperance and prudence, Justice and fortitude: Which are such things, as men can have nothing more profitable in their life.

And great pleasure it is to have her friendship; And in the works of her hands are infinite riches; And in the exercise of conference with her, prudence; And in talking with her, a good report; I went about seeking how to take her to me.

And hardly do we guess aright at things that are upon earth, And with labor do we find the things that are before us: But the things that are in heaven who hath searched out?

But wisdom delivered from pain those that attended upon her.

When the righteous fled from his brother’s wrath, She guided him in right paths, showed him the kingdom of God, And gave him knowledge of holy things, Made him rich in his travails, And multiplied the fruit of his labors.

For neither did the mischievous invention of men deceive us, Nor an image spotted with diverse colors, The painter’s fruitless labor;

But these very grievously afflicted them, Whom they had received with feastings, And were already made partakers of the same laws with them.

An obstinate heart shall be laden with sorrows; And the wicked man shall heap sin upon sin.

Marvel not at the works of sinners; But trust in the Lord, and abide in thy labor: For it is an easy thing in the sight of the Lord on the sudden to make a poor man rich.

Shalt thou not leave thy travails unto another? And thy labors to be divided by lot?

A backbiting tongue hath cast out virtuous women, And deprived them of their labors.

Whoso bringeth an offering of the goods of the poor Doeth as one that killeth the son before his father’s eyes.

With such doth he heal men, And taketh away their pains.

And lo, they are cast out to the heat of the day, and to the frost of the night, and they died in great miseries by famine, by sword, and by pestilence.