Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their lords, "Bring, and let us drink."
"Ye kine of Bashan ..." By far the majority of modern translators and commentators render this.  "Ye cows of Bashan, "making it a reference exclusively to the "fat cat" women of Samaria.  We shall accept this, but it should be noted that most of the older commentators did not go along with that view.  Clarke wrote, "I think the prophet means men of effeminate and idle lives."[4]  The word here is "cows," the feminine form of "kine" having no other meaning; but the uncertainty with regard to the meaning derives from the fact that the Hebrew text in this place uses a mixture of feminine and masculine gender words with some inevitable confusion as to what exactly is meant.  The best explanation of this we have seen is this: