4 Maccabees 16:4-6

Revised Standard Version

⁴ But the mother quenched so many and such great emotions by devout reason.

⁵ Consider this also. If this woman, though a mother, had been fainthearted, she would have mourned over them and perhaps have spoken as follows: ⁶ “O how wretched am I and many times unhappy! After bearing seven children, I am now the mother of none!