So it was, whenever Israel had sown, Midianites would come up; also Amalekites and the people of the East would come up against them.

"You shall sow, but not reap; You shall tread the olives, but not anoint yourselves with oil; And [make] sweet wine, but not drink wine.

'For I feared you, because you are an austere man. You collect what you did not deposit, and reap what you did not sow.'