painful

tuskallinen

rasittava

kipeä Causing pain or distress, either physical or mental. (defdate)
Afflicted or suffering with pain (of a body part or, formerly, of a person). (defdate)
Requiring effort or labor; difficult, laborious. (defdate)
puhekieltä painstaking Painstaking; careful; industrious. (defdate)
1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, in Kupperman 1988, p. 142:

The men bestow their times in fishing, hunting, warres, and such manlike exercises, scorning to be seene in any woman-like exercise, which is the cause that the women be very painefull, and the men often idle.

For twenty generations, here was the earthly arena where painful living men worked out their life-wrestle