(Jer 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” (Psa 80:6).
I have neither lent, etc. - proverbial for, “I have given no cause for strife against me.”