The question is from Prov 11:26. This proverb is directed against the corn-usurer, whose covetousness and deceitful conduct is described in Amo_8:4-8. But whilst it is there said that they cannot wait till the burdensome interruption of their usurious conduct on account of the sacred days come to an end, the figure here is of a different aspect of their character: they hold back their stores of corn in the times of scarcity, for they speculate on receiving yet higher prices for it.