Before these days — For eighteen years together. No hire — No profit by the labour of man or beast, no sowing or planting. Affliction — Distress, and want, through the barrenness, which attended all their labour.
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Zechariah 8:10
10 For before these days there wasd no hire for man, nor any hire for beast; neither was there any peace to him that went out or came in because of the affliction: for I set all men every one against his neighbour.