They reap [every one] his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.
Ver. 6. They reap every one his corn in the field] The poor oppressed are made by them to harvest their crops, and tread their vintages in the end of the year (sero colligunt), as the Hebrew importeth, without either food or wages, or so much as a cup to drink, as the eleventh verse sets forth; which is extreme cruelty, and flatly forbidden, Deuteronomy 24:14,15, and order taken that the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn should not be muzzled, Deuteronomy 25:4. Quantum igitur iudicium, saith Brentius, How great judgments of God then will light upon those who do that to men of the same flesh, of the same faith, of the same country, with themselves, which they ought not to do to the brute creatures they make use of! Quod malum in Germania frequentissimum est; Vae igitur Germaniae: This, saith he, is a common sin in Germany; woe, therefore, to Germany. Think the same of England, and take notice that this is one of those crying sins that entereth into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth, James 5:4, and he will hear, for he is gracious, Exodus 22:27. The words are otherwise sensed by some; but this to me seemeth most suitable to the subsequent verses.