The Jabez Prayer is in First Chronicles 4:10. The New King James version of it reads as follows: "Oh that you would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory, that your hand would be with me, and that you would keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain."
Most translations of the Jabez Prayer are characterized by this sentiment: "that I may not experience pain"rather than that I would not cause pain.
The scholars at Thomas Nelson Publishers "assigned" a merit to Jabez that led him to find favor with God.
