³⁷ In this the saying is a true one, One does the planting, and another gets in the grain.

¹⁵ You will put in seed, but you will not get in the grain; you will be crushing olives, but your bodies will not be rubbed with the oil; and you will get in the grapes, but you will have no wine.

⁸ Let me put seed in the earth for another to have the fruit of it, and let my produce be uprooted.

³ And whenever Israel's grain was planted, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east came up against them;

²¹ Because I was in fear of you, for you are a hard man: you take up what you have not put down, and get in grain where you have not put seed.