Revelation 9:4-6

They were told that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree, but only those men who don’t have God’s seal on their foreheads.

They were given power not to kill them, but to torment them for five months. Their torment was like the torment of a scorpion, when it strikes a man.

In those days men will seek death, and will in no way find it. They will desire to die, and death will flee from them.