Job 24:11

9 They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.

10 They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;

Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.

12 Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.

13 They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.

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 unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that useth his neighbour’s service without wages, and giveth him not for his work;

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  • James 5:4

    Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

    Read in context
  • Deuteronomy 25:4

    Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.

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