Now, he’s referring here probably to professional prophetic guilds—professional groups of prophets. Some of them were also court prophets who were in the pay of the king, and as the king was the one who gave them their salary, quite often they said things that would be pleasing to him. And Amos is denying this. “I am not in it for the money. I didn’t come here by choice. This isn’t my job, but I was something else before I came.” And what he talks about here is, he says, “I was a herdsman,” or a