Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version They crush olives among the terraces; they tread the winepresses, yet suffer thirst. New Living Translation They press out olive oil without being allowed to taste it, and they tread in the winepress as they suffer from thirst. English Standard Version among the olive rows of the wicked they make oil; they tread the winepresses, but suffer thirst. Berean Study Bible They crush olives within their walls; they tread the winepresses, but go thirsty. New American Standard Bible "Within the walls they produce oil; They tread wine presses but thirst. King James Bible Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst. Christian Standard Bible They crush olives in their presses; they tread the winepresses, but go thirsty. Contemporary English Version They crush olives to make oil and grapes to make wine--but still they go thirsty. Good News Translation They press olives for oil, and grapes for wine, but they themselves are thirsty. Holman Christian Standard Bible They crush olives in their presses; they tread the winepresses, but go thirsty. International Standard Version They press oil between the olive groves owned by the wicked; they suffer from thirst, even while treading the winepress. NET Bible They press out the olive oil between the rows of olive trees; they tread the winepresses while they are thirsty. New Heart English Bible They make oil within the walls of these men. They tread wine presses, and suffer thirst. GOD'S WORD® Translation They press out olive oil between rows [of olive trees]. They stomp on grapes in wine vats, yet they are thirsty. JPS Tanakh 1917 They make oil within the rows of these men; They tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst. New American Standard 1977 “Within the walls they produce oil; They tread wine presses but thirst. Jubilee Bible 2000 They press oil within their walls and tread their winepresses and suffer thirst. King James 2000 Bible Who make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, yet suffer thirst. American King James Version Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst. American Standard Version They make oil within the walls of these men; They tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst. Douay-Rheims Bible They have taken their rest at noon among the stores of them, who after having trodden the winepresses suffer thirst. Darby Bible Translation They press out oil within their walls, they tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst. English Revised Version They make oil within the walls of these men; they tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst. Webster's Bible Translation Who make oil within their walls, and tread their wine-presses, and suffer thirst. World English Bible They make oil within the walls of these men. They tread wine presses, and suffer thirst. Young's Literal Translation Between their walls they make oil, Wine-presses they have trodden, and thirst. Study Bible Job: Judgment for the Wicked…10Without clothing, they wander about naked. They carry the sheaves, but still go hungry. 11They crush olives within their walls; they tread the winepresses, but go thirsty. 12From the city, men groan, and the souls of the wounded cry out, yet God charges no one with wrongdoing.… Cross References Job 24:10 Without clothing, they wander about naked. They carry the sheaves, but still go hungry. Job 24:12 From the city, men groan, and the souls of the wounded cry out, yet God charges no one with wrongdoing. Job 24:18 They are but foam on the surface of the water; their portion of the land is cursed, so that no one would turn into their vineyards. Isaiah 16:10 Joy and gladness are removed from the orchard; no one sings or shouts in the vineyards. No one tramples the grapes in the winepresses; I have put an end to the cheering. Treasury of Scripture Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst. Deuteronomy 25:4 You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the corn. Jeremiah 22:13 Woe to him that builds his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers … James 5:4 Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, … Verse 11. - Which make oil within their walls, and tread their wine-presses, and suffer thirst. In the third place, the same unfortunates are employed in the homesteads of their oppressors to express oil from the olives and wine from the rich clusters of grapes, while they themselves are tormented with unceasing thirst. Which make oil within their walls,.... Not the poor within their own walls; as if the sense was, that they made their oil in a private manner within the walls of their houses, or in their cellars, lest it should be known and taken away from them; for such cannot be thought to have had oliveyards to make oil of; rather within the walls of their rich masters, where they were kept closely confined to their work, as if in a prison; or within the walls and fences of their oliveyards, where their olive presses stood; or best of all "within the rows (q) of their olive trees", as the word signifies, where having gathered the olives, they pressed out the oil in the presses and this they did at noon, in the heat of the day, as the word (r) for making oil is observed by some to signify, and yet had nothing given them to quench their thirst, as follows: and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst; after having gathered their grapes from their vines for them, they trod them in the winepresses, and made their wine, and yet would not allow them to drink of it to allay their thirst. (q) "inter ordines", Mercerus, Piscator, Cocceius; so Sephorno, and some in Eliae Tishbi, p. 241. (r) "meridiati sunt", V. L. so Bolducius, Schultens. 11. Which—"They," the poor, "press the oil within their wall"; namely, not only in the open fields (Job 24:10), but also in the wall-enclosed vineyards and olive gardens of the oppressor (Isa 5:5). Yet they are not allowed to quench their "thirst" with the grapes and olives. Here, thirsty; Job 24:10, hungry.24:1-12 Job discourses further about the prosperity of the wicked. That many live at ease who are ungodly and profane, he had showed, ch. xxi. Here he shows that many who live in open defiance of all the laws of justice, succeed in wicked practices; and we do not see them reckoned with in this world. He notices those that do wrong under pretence of law and authority; and robbers, those that do wrong by force. He says, God layeth not folly to them; that is, he does not at once send his judgments, nor make them examples, and so manifest their folly to all the world. But he that gets riches, and not by right, at his end shall be a fool, Jer 17:11. 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