Now it came to pass, when she was in hard labor, that the midwife said to her, "Do not fear; you will have this son also."

And so it was, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she called his name Ben-Oni; but his father called him Benjamin.

"A woman, when she is in labor, has sorrow because her hour has come; but as soon as she has given birth to the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world.

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord; My hand was stretched out in the night without ceasing; My soul refused to be comforted.