4 Bible Verses About Hardship

Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;

Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.

And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.

So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.