John Gill Commentary Zechariah 8:10

"For before those days there was 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 adversary: for I set all men every one against his neighbor." — Zechariah 8:10 (ASV)

For before these days That the temple began to be built:

there was no hire for men, nor any hire for beasts ; that turned to any account; the wages earned by the one, and with the other, were as if they were put into a bag with holes, did not prosper with them, or do them any service, (Haggai 1:6) (2:16) :

neither [was there any] peace to him that went out or came in, because of the affliction ; there was no safety in passing to and fro, nor any peaceable enjoyment of what a man had, because of affliction and oppression by the enemy on every side, and from every quarter:

for I set all men everyone against his neighbour ; expressive of the internal divisions and contentions among themselves, which are said to be of the Lord, because he permitted them as a chastisement upon them for their sins.