Putting my comment to answer. Please do try to provide one Empty Border to your JPanel to which you are adding JScrollPane or you can add one EmptyBorder to your JTextArea .
You are adding the JScrollPane to the JPanel parent of a JLabel and a JTextArea. That way the JTextArea will think that it as a wider width than it has to render the text on.
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