Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.
He traveleth ... and hath conceived mischief ... falsehood. Describing the sinner's laborious course of evil, from its first conception to its maturity, under the image of a woman in labour-pangs (cf. James 1:14-15). His toilsome plotting of mischief shall not be without effect, but the effect shall be against himself. His evil shall all recoil on himself (Psalms 7:15-16). Hengstenberg makes this result to himself begin in this 5:, and translates, 'He is big with misery (hamal), and bringeth forth falsehood - i:e., the falsifying of his expectation, and reversal of his plot.