Sow to yourselves in righteousness, Reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; For it is time to seek Yahweh, Until he comes and rains righteousness on you.
"For it is time to seek Jehovah, till he come and rain righteousness upon you ..." Full agreement is felt with Butler who cautioned against the efforts of some commentators to construe this passage as a denial that "men must do righteous deeds in order to be pleasing to God."  Such commentators write that: