For before these days there was no hire for man nor any hire for beast, for the yield of the land at that time was so small as hardly to be called fair wages, up. Haggai 1:6; neither was there any peace to him that went out or came in because of the affliction, there was so much envy and hostility among the people themselves, and on account of jealousy stirred up by the Samaritans, that the ordinary occupations of life were continually being interfered with; for I set all men every one against his neighbor, as the account of Nehemiah shows.

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