He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.
Ver. 8. He that soweth iniquity, shall reap vanity.] The usurer and cruel creditor soweth his money, his mammon of iniquity (that ungain grain), upon his poor debtors; and whether it be a barren year or a fruitful, a good soil or a bad, luna affert menstruos sensus, he hath his constant pay, yea, his use upon use, according to that Greek verse,
‘ Eστι τοκος προ τοκοιο, τοκος τε μεν εστι και αλλος .'
Now, can such increase be blest? Shall not those that thus sow the wind be sure to reap the whirlwind?
And the rod of his anger shall fail.] That is, that tyrannical power which he exerciseth upon others, as his underlings, shall be broken. God will take out of his hand the rod wherewith he hath beaten his fellow servants, and waste it upon his own back to the very stump.