Jeremiah 15:10

Woe is me, etc.] Cp. Job 3:1 ff., also Savonarola's address to God in one of his sermons, "O Lord, whither hast thou led me? From my desire to save souls for Thee, I can no longer return to my rest. Why hast Thou made me -a man of strife, and a man of contention to the whole earth?" " W. R. Clark's Savonarola, p. 230.

I have not lent Cp. Deuteronomy 23:20; Psalms 15:5. Necessity being almost the sole motive for borrowing, the moneylender would naturally be held in extreme disfavour. So "Interest is money begotten of money; so that of the sources of gain this is the most unnatural" (Aristotle, Politics, Bk. 1 Chronicles 3, end). "Sources of gain, which incur the hatred of mankind, as those of tax-gatherers, of usurers". Cicero, de Officiis, Bk. I. § 150. Cp.

"When did friendship take

A breed for barren metal of his friend?"

Mer. of Venice, 1:3, v. 123.