אֵין בָּעוֹלָם קָשֶׁה מִן הָעֲנִיּוּת

ביטוי (אנגלית)

There is nothing in the world harder than poverty

הגדרה (אנגלית)

There is no hardship in life greater than the difficulties of poverty, which include within them all types of hardships.

("There is nothing in the world harder than poverty, which is harsher than all other sufferings in the world. Our sages said: all sufferings are on one side and poverty on the other... there is no trait harsher than poverty, for anyone afflicted with poverty is as if all sufferings in the world are attached to him, and as if all the curses in Deuteronomy have come upon him" - Exodus Rabbah (Vilna), Parashat Mishpatim, section 31)