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The Curse of Futile Labor
Commentators explain that this verse describes a bitter form of judgment: doing all the work only to have the reward snatched away. Sowing seeds, pressing olives, and crushing grapes—all without enjoying the harvest, oil, or wine. This was a direct fulfillment of the covenant curses in Deuteronomy 28, a tangible sign of God's hand against the people's injustice.
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Micah
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Albert Barnes
On Micah 6:15
18th Century
Theologian
You shall sow, but you shall not reap. Micah renews the threats of the law (Leviticus 26:16;[Reference Deuteronomy 28:3…
Charles Ellicott
On Micah 6:15
19th Century
Bishop
You shall tread the olives — that is, as wheat upon the threshing-floor. Oil was regarded as indispensable for personal c…
Charles Spurgeon
On Micah 6:15
19th Century
Preacher
God can let people have every form of outward prosperity, and yet make nothing of it. I fear that some, perhaps some present, have every outward re…
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John Calvin
On Micah 6:15
16th Century
Theologian
The Prophet adds another kind of punishment, which was to follow the calamity threatened in the last verse. He had said that those who escaped woul…
John Gill
On Micah 6:15
17th Century
Pastor
You shall sow, but you shall not reap. Either that which is sown shall not spring up, but rot in the earth; or if it does…
Matthew Henry
On Micah 6:9–16
17th Century
Minister
God, having shown how necessary it was that they should do justly, here shows how plain it was that they had done unjustly. This voice of the Lord …