Wealthy ones were exacting heavy interest, and their poorer brothers, in order to pay debts as well as the Persian tax, had to give up their land and even sell their children into slavery.
این مشکلات که بر رابطهٔ مردم با یَهُوَه تأثیر می‌گذاشتند مانند خارهایی بودند که او را بسیار رنج می‌دادند .‏