Albert Barnes Commentary Jeremiah 15:10

"Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, neither have men lent to me; [yet] every one of them doth curse me." — Jeremiah 15:10 (ASV)

Jeremiah vents his sorrow at the rejection of his prayer. In reading these and similar expostulations, we sense that we are dealing with a man who was the reluctant minister of a higher power, from which alone he drew strength to be content to do and suffer.

Strife—More exactly, “lawsuit;” the sense is, “I am like a man who must enter into judgment with and reprove the whole earth.”

I have neither lent ...—i.e., I have no personal reason to quarrel with the people that would account for my being perpetually in conflict with them. The relations between the moneylender and the debtor were a fruitful source of lawsuits and quarreling.