Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: but ye feed not the flock.
Ye eat the fat, х hacheeleb (H2459)] - or, by differently pointing the Hebrew, 'milk' [hachaalaab]: so the Septuagint Thus the repetition, "the fat," and "them that are fed," is avoided; also the eating of "the fat" would not probably be put before the "killing" of the sheep. The eating of sheep or goats' milk as food (Deuteronomy 32:14, "Butter of kine and milk of sheep;" Proverbs 27:27) was unobjectionable, had not these shepherds milked them too often, and that without duly "feeding" them (Bochart); (Isaiah 56:11, "Yea, they are greedy dogs, which can never have enough ... they all look to their own way"). The rulers levied exorbitant tributes.
Ye kill them that are fed - ye kill the rich by false accusation, so as to get possession of their property.
Ye feed not the flock - ye take no care of the people (John 10:12-13, "He that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep and fleeth; and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep. The hireling fleeth because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep").