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;
Read in contextJames 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 contextDeuteronomy 25:4
Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.
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