Job 24:11

9 The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.

10 Without clothing, they wander about naked. They carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.

They crush olives within their walls; they tread the winepresses, but go thirsty.

12 From the city, men groan, and the souls of the wounded cry out, yet God charges no one with wrongdoing.

13 Then there are those who rebel against the light, not knowing its ways or staying on its paths.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB
They crush olives within their walls; they tread the winepresses, but go thirsty.
KJV
Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
WEB
They make oil within the walls of these men. They tread wine presses, and suffer thirst.
ASV
They make oil within the walls of these men; They tread [their] winepresses, and suffer thirst.
DARBY
They press out oil within their walls, they tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
BLB
Between their walls they press oil; they tread the winepresses and go thirsty.
ÅB
Mellom de ugudeliges murer perser de olje; de treder vinpersene og tørster.
OTB
Innenfor murene presser de olje;
De tråkker vinpresser, men forblir tørste.
B1930
Mellem de ugudeliges murer perser de olje; de treder vinpersene og tørster.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Jeremiah 22:13

    “Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms without justice, who makes his countrymen serve without pay, and fails to pay their wages,

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  • James 5:4

    Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.

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  • Deuteronomy 25:4

    Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.

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