Whenever the Israelites would plant their crops, the Midianites would come with the Amalekites and the desert tribes and attack them.

You will sow grain, but not harvest the crop. You will press oil from olives, but never get to use it. You will make wine, but never drink it.

I was afraid of you, because you are a hard man. You take what is not yours and reap what you did not plant.'