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These are difficult things for a person of intelligence: criticism for being an immigrant and rebuke from a moneylender.
Better is the poor man's fare under a roof of boards, than sumptuous cheer abroad in another man's house.
Being denied hospitality or having a moneylender hound you—these are hard things for any sensitive person to endure.
Painful things to a sensitive person are rebuke as a parasite and insults from creditors.
A sensitive man finds two things difficult to bear: criticism from members of his household and the insults of his creditors.
It is hard for a sensitive person to bear scolding about lodging and the insults of the moneylender.
It is hard for a sensitive person to bear scolding about lodging and the insults of the moneylender.
It is hard for a sensible person to bear scolding about lodging and the insults of the moneylender.
It is hard for a sensible person to bear scolding about lodging and the insults of the moneylender.
These things are hard to bear for a man who has feeling: scolding about lodging and the reproach of the moneylender.
These things are hard to bear for a man who has feeling: scolding about lodging and the reproach of the moneylender.
These things be grievous to a man having wit; the reproving of house, and the despising of the usurer. [Grievous these things to a man having wit; reproving of the house, and reproof of the lender.]
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