Job 24:11
Good News Translation
They press olives for oil, and grapes for wine, but they themselves are thirsty.

New Revised Standard Version
between their terraces they press out oil; they tread the wine presses, but suffer thirst.

Contemporary English Version
They crush olives to make oil and grapes to make wine--but still they go thirsty.

New American Bible
Between the rows they press out the oil; they tread the wine presses, yet are thirsty.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They have taken their rest at noon among the stores of them, who after having trodden the winepresses suffer thirst.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

They have taken their rest at noon among the stores of them, who after having trodden the winepresses suffer thirst.

Deuteronomy 25:4 Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out thy corn on the floor.

Jeremiah 22:13 Woe to him that buildeth up his house by injustice, and his chambers not in judgment: that will oppress his friend without cause, and will not pay him his wages.

James 5:4 Behold the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which by fraud has been kept back by you, crieth: and the cry of them hath entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.

Context
Job: Judgment for the Wicked
10From the naked and them that go without clothing, and from the hungry they have taken away the ears of corn. 11They have taken their rest at noon among the stores of them, who after having trodden the winepresses suffer thirst.12Out of the cities they have made men to groan, and the soul of the wounded hath cried out, and God doth not suffer it to pass unrevenged.…
Cross References
Job 24:10
From the naked and them that go without clothing, and from the hungry they have taken away the ears of corn.

Job 24:12
Out of the cities they have made men to groan, and the soul of the wounded hath cried out, and God doth not suffer it to pass unrevenged.

Job 24:18
He is light upon the face of the water: cursed be his portion on the earth, let him not walk by the way of the vineyards.

Isaiah 16:10
And gladness and joy shall be taken away from Carmel, and there shall be no rejoicing nor shouting in the vineyards. He shall not tread out wine in the press that was wont to tread it out: the voice of the treaders I have taken away.

Job 24:10
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