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Job 33:19 “Man is also chastened with pain on his bed, And with unceasing complaint in his bones;

Re 21:4 and He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there will no longer be any death; there will no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain; the first things have passed away.”

It means that, when the world is going through great convulsions, the followers of Jesus are called to be people of prayer at the place where the world is in pain.

N. T. Wright

The context may rather suggest that the pain of birthing is a sign of the pain of motherhood that Eve will shortly experience when she hears that her first son has killed her second son.

John Goldingay