Job 24 · Verse 11

Job 24:11

Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
Job 24:11, King James Version

Job 24:11 in other translations

BSBThey crush olives within their walls; they tread the winepresses, but go thirsty.
WEBThey make oil within the walls of these men. They tread wine presses, and suffer thirst.
ASVThey make oil within the walls of these men; They tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
YLTBetween their walls they make oil, Wine-presses they have trodden, and thirst.
DARBYThey press out oil within their walls, they tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
BBEBetween the lines of olive-trees they make oil; though they have no drink, they are crushing out the grapes.
WebsterWho make oil within their walls, and tread their wine-presses, and suffer thirst.

What does Job 24:11 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Job 24:2-25

2-24. Instances of the wicked doing the worst deeds with seeming impunity (Job 24:2-24). Some--the wicked. landmarks--boundaries between different pastures (De 19:14; Pr 22:28).

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 11 Make oil within their walls - Thus stripped of all that on which they depended for clothing and food, they are obliged to become vassals to their lord, labor in the fields on scanty fare, or tread their wine-presses, from the produce of which they are not permitted to quench their thirst.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 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…

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Job 24:11 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

בֵּין\־bein-betweenH996
שׁוּרֹתָ֥םshu.ro.Tamrows theirH7791
יַצְהִ֑ירוּyatz.Hi.ruthey press out oilH6671
יְקָבִ֥יםye.ka.Vimwine-pressesH3342
דָּ֝רְכ֗וּda.re.Khuthey treadH1869
וַיִּצְמָֽאוּ\׃vai.yitz.Ma.'uand they were thirstyH6770

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 24:11

  • 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;

  • 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.

  • Deuteronomy 25:4

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

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
De 25:4; Jer 22:13; Jas 5:4

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Job 24:10

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

  • Job 24:11

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

  • Job 24:12

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

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Job 24:11 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		De dentro de sus paredes exprimen el aceite, pisan los lagares, y mueren de sed.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Entre leurs murailles ils font de l’huile, ils foulent le pressoir, et ont soif.
German
Elberfelder 1871		zwischen ihren Mauern pressen sie Öl, treten die Kelter und dursten.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Inter acervos eorum meridiati sunt, qui calcatis torcularibus sitiunt.