travail
noun
painfully difficult or burdensome work; toil.
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
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A fool will travail in pain with a word, as a woman in labour with a child.
From Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature by Richard Green Moulton