Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished.
Ver. 11. Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen] This repetition of his former exhortation is not needless; for man is a stout and stubborn creature; neither goeth anything more against the hair and the heart with him than to come downward, and to be so soundly sensible of God's judgments as seriously to repent. Hence St James's extraordinary importunity in pressing this most needful but much neglected duty, James 4:9,10. He knew, and so did our prophet, that this work must be done, or else men are undone. Hence that heap of words. Nunquam satis dicitur quod nunquam satis discitur (Seneca). That can never be too much taught that is never enough learned.