28 The words “I said” are not in the text. They are supplied in the translation for clarity to mark a shift in the speaker.
29 Heb “Woe to me, my mother.” See the comments on 4:13 and 10:19.
30 Heb “A man of strife and a man of contention with all the land.” The “of” relationship (Hebrew and Greek genitive) can convey either subjective or objective relationships, i.e., he instigates strife and contention or he is the object of it. A study of usage elsewhere, e.g., Isa 41:11; Job 31:35; Prov 12:19; 25:24; 26:21; 27:15, is convincing that it is subjective. In his role as God’s covenant messenger charging people with wrong doing he has instigated counterarguments and stirred about strife and contention against him.
31 The translation follows the almost universally agreed upon correction of the . Instead of reading כֻּלֹּה מְקַלְלַונִי (kulloh méqallavni, “all of him is cursing me”) as the Masoretes proposed (Qere) one should read קִלְלוּנִי (qilluni) with the written text (Kethib) and redivide and repoint with the suggestion in כֻּלְּהֶם (qulléhem, “all of them are cursing me”).

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Woe is me, my mother, that you bore me, a man of strife and contention to the whole land! I have not lent, nor have I borrowed, yet all of them curse me.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Alas, my mother, that you gave me birth,

a man with whom the whole land strives and contends!

I have neither lent nor borrowed,

yet everyone curses me.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Woe is me, my mother,

that you gave birth to me,

a man who incites dispute and conflict

in all the land.

I did not lend or borrow,

yet everyone curses me.

NLTNew Living Translation

Then I said,

“What sorrow is mine, my mother.

Oh, that I had died at birth!

I am hated everywhere I go.

I am neither a lender who threatens to foreclose

nor a borrower who refuses to pay—

yet they all curse me.”

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Woe to me, O my mother, that you gave birth to me,

a man of contention and quarreling to the whole land.

I have not lent out and I have not borrowed.

All of them are cursing me.

Woe 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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Jeremiah Complains about His Lot and The Lord Responds

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