New Revised Standard Version
Do not regard your servant as a worthless woman, for I have been speaking out of my great anxiety and vexation all this time.”

New American Bible
Do not think your servant a worthless woman; my prayer has been prompted by my deep sorrow and misery.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Count not thy handmaid for one of the daughters of Belial: for out of the abundance of my sorrow and grief have I spoken till now.

Count not thy handmaid for one of the daughters of Belial: for out of the abundance of my sorrow and grief have I spoken till now.

a daughter

1 Samuel 2:12 Now the sons of Heli were children of Belial, not knowing the Lord,

1 Samuel 10:27 But the children of Belial said: Shall this fellow be able to save us? And they despised him, and brought him no presents; but he dissembled as though he heard not.

1 Samuel 25:25 Let not my lord the king, I pray thee, regard this naughty man, Nabal: for according to his name, he is a fool, and folly is with him: but I, thy handmaid, did not see thy servants, my lord, whom thou sentest.

Deuteronomy 13:13 Children of Belial are gone out of the midst of thee, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, and have said: Let us go, and serve strange gods which you know not:

out of

Job 6:2,3 O that my sins, whereby I have deserved wrath, and the calamity that I suffer, were weighed in a balance. . . .

Job 10:1,2 My soul is weary of my life, I will let go my speech against myself, I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. . . .

Matthew 12:34,35 O generation of vipers, how can you speak good things, whereas you are evil? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. . . .

complaint.