but will say, ‘I am not a prophet. I am a farmer—I have been a bondservant from my youth.’
So Amos responded and said to Amaziah: “I am no prophet, nor am I a son of a prophet. Rather, I am a shepherd tending fig trees.
Then someone will ask him, “What are these wounds between your hands?”—and he will answer, “Those that I received in the house of my friends.”