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Woef is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.

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Job 3:1• ¹After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. (Job 3:1)

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Jer. 20:14‑18• ¹⁴Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.
¹⁵Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.
¹⁶And let that man be as the cities which the Lord overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide;
¹⁷Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.
¹⁸Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame? (Jer. 20:14‑18)

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Job 3:1‑26• ¹After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
²And Job spake, and said,
³Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.
⁴Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
⁵Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
⁶As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.
⁷Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
⁸Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
⁹Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:
¹⁰Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
¹¹Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
¹²Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
¹³For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
¹⁴With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
¹⁵Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
¹⁶Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
¹⁷There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
¹⁸There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
¹⁹The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
²⁰Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
²¹Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
²²Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
²³Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
²⁴For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
²⁵For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.
²⁶I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came. (Job 3:1‑26)

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Jer. 15:20• ²⁰And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brazen wall: and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee: for I am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, saith the Lord. (Jer. 15:20)

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Jer. 1:18‑19• ¹⁸For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, and an iron pillar, and brazen walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land.
¹⁹And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee, saith the Lord, to deliver thee. (Jer. 1:18‑19)

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Jer. 20:7‑8• ⁷O Lord, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived: thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one mocketh me.
⁸For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the Lord was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily. (Jer. 20:7‑8)

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1 Kings 18:17‑18• ¹⁷And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, Art thou he that troubleth Israel?
¹⁸And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the Lord, and thou hast followed Baalim. (1 Kings 18:17‑18)

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1 Kings 21:20• ²⁰And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered, I have found thee: because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight of the Lord. (1 Kings 21:20)

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1 Kings 22:8• ⁸And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may inquire of the Lord: but I hate him; for he doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so. (1 Kings 22:8)

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Psa. 120:5‑6• ⁵Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar!
⁶My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace. (Psa. 120:5‑6)

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Ezek. 2:6‑7• ⁶And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns be with thee, and thou dost dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.
⁷And thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear: for they are most rebellious. (Ezek. 2:6‑7)

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Ezek. 3:7‑9• ⁷But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they will not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel are impudent and hardhearted.
⁸Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads.
⁹As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house. (Ezek. 3:7‑9)

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Matt. 10:21‑23• ²¹And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.
²²And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.
²³But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come. (Matt. 10:21‑23)

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Matt. 24:9• ⁹Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. (Matt. 24:9)

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Luke 2:34• ³⁴And Simeon blessed them, and said unto Mary his mother, Behold, this child is set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel; and for a sign which shall be spoken against; (Luke 2:34)

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Acts 16:20‑22• ²⁰And brought them to the magistrates, saying, These men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city,
²¹And teach customs, which are not lawful for us to receive, neither to observe, being Romans.
²²And the multitude rose up together against them: and the magistrates rent off their clothes, and commanded to beat them. (Acts 16:20‑22)

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Acts 17:6‑8• ⁶And when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the rulers of the city, crying, These that have turned the world upside down are come hither also;
⁷Whom Jason hath received: and these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, one Jesus.
⁸And they troubled the people and the rulers of the city, when they heard these things. (Acts 17:6‑8)

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Acts 19:8‑9,25‑28• ⁸And he went into the synagogue, and spake boldly for the space of three months, disputing and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God.
⁹But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus.
²⁵Whom he called together with the workmen of like occupation, and said, Sirs, ye know that by this craft we have our wealth.
²⁶Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands:
²⁷So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worshippeth.
²⁸And when they heard these sayings, they were full of wrath, and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians. (Acts 19:8‑9,25‑28)

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Acts 28:22• ²²But we desire to hear of thee what thou thinkest: for as concerning this sect, we know that every where it is spoken against. (Acts 28:22)

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1 Cor. 4:9‑13• ⁹For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.
¹⁰We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honorable, but we are despised.
¹¹Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace;
¹²And labor, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:
¹³Being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day. (1 Cor. 4:9‑13)

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Ex. 22:25• ²⁵If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury. (Ex. 22:25)

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Deut. 23:19‑20• ¹⁹Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury:
²⁰Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it. (Deut. 23:19‑20)

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Neh. 5:1‑6• ¹And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.
²For there were that said, We, our sons, and our daughters, are many: therefore we take up corn for them, that we may eat, and live.
³Some also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth.
⁴There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute, and that upon our lands and vineyards.
⁵Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought unto bondage already: neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards.
⁶And I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words. (Neh. 5:1‑6)

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Psa. 15:5• ⁵He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved. (Psa. 15:5)

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Psa. 109:28• ²⁸Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice. (Psa. 109:28)

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Prov. 26:2• ²As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come. (Prov. 26:2)

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Matt. 5:44• ⁴⁴But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; (Matt. 5:44)

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Luke 6:22• ²²Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake. (Luke 6:22)

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Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole land! I have not lent on usury, nor have they lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.