Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Jeremiah 20:14; Job 3:1, etc.). Jeremiah seems to have been of a peculiarly sensitive temperament; yet the Holy Spirit enabled him to deliver his message at the certain cost of having his sensitiveness wounded by the enmities of those whom his words offended.
man of strife--exposed to strifes on the part of "the whole earth" (Psalms 80:6).
I have neither lent, etc.--proverbial for, "I have given no cause for strife against me."
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Isaiah 52:13
Jeremiah 45:5
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