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Or is it only Bar-Nabba and I who are denied the privilege of not working at a parnasah?

Whoever heard of someone serving as a chaiyal (soldier) but having to pay his own wages for doing so? Who plants a kerem (vineyard) but does not eat the p’ri hakerem? And who serves as a ro’eh (shepherd) over a flock and of the cholov (milk) of the flock does not partake? [Devarim 20:6; Mishle 27:18]

Do I say this according to the dvar haBnei Adam? Or does not the Torah say these things?

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