'Misery' in the Bible
"Why does God give light to one who is in misery, and life to those whose soul is bitter,
In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress overtakes him. the full force of misery will come upon him.
You keep track of my misery. Put my tears in your leather container! Are they not recorded in your scroll?
let them drink and forget their poverty, and remember their misery no more.
Here is a misfortune on earth that I have seen: Wealth hoarded by its owner to his own misery.
Look, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have purified you in the furnace of misery.
The Lord God appointed a little plant and caused it to grow up over Jonah to be a shade over his head to rescue him from his misery. Now Jonah was very delighted about the little plant.