Joh 16:21 | ESV | STEP | When a woman is giving birth , she has sorrow because her hour has come , but when she has delivered the baby , she no longer remembers the anguish , for joy that a human being has been born into the world .

a Isa. 26:17; [Ps. 48:6; Isa. 13:8; 1 Thess. 5:3; Rev. 12:2]

‏ John 16:21

21 ^aWhen a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come, but when she has delivered the baby, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world.