Christian Standard Bible
Job 24:11
11They crush olives in their presses; they tread the winepresses, but go thirsty.
Job 24:11 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
- New International Version (NIV)They crush olives among the terraces; they tread the winepresses, yet suffer thirst.
- English Standard Version (ESV)among the olive rows of the wicked they make oil; they tread the winepresses, but suffer thirst.
- New King James Version (NKJV)They press out oil within their walls, And tread winepresses, yet suffer thirst.
Context of Job 24:11
9The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized as collateral. 10Without clothing, they wander about naked. They carry sheaves but go hungry. They crush olives in their presses; they tread the winepresses, but go thirsty. 12From the city, men groan; the mortally wounded cry for help, yet God pays no attention to this crime. 13The wicked are those who rebel against the light. They do not recognize its ways or stay on its paths.
Read all of Job 24Job 24:11 word by word
בֵּין־שׁוּרֹתָ֥ם יַצְהִ֑ירוּ יְקָבִ֥ים דָּ֝רְכ֗וּ וַיִּצְמָֽאוּ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 24:11
- Deuteronomy 25:4“Do not muzzle an ox while it treads out grain.
- Jeremiah 22:13Woe for the one who builds his palace through unrighteousness, his upstairs rooms through injustice, who makes his neighbor serve without pay and will not give him his wages,
- James 5:4Look! The pay that you withheld from the workers who mowed your fields cries out, and the outcry of the harvesters has reached the ears of the Lord of Armies.
Commentaries on Job 24:11
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 11Make 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.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 11Which made oil within their walls - Or rather, they compel them to express oil within their walls. The word יצהירו yatshı̂yrû rendered “made oil,” is from צחר tsachar to shine, to give light; and hence, the derivatives of the word are used to denote light, and then oil, and thence the word comes to denote to press out oil for the purpose of light. Oil was obtained for this purpose from olives by pressing them, and the idea here is, that the poor were…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 11Forcing workers to tread the winepresses while they go thirsty violates the principle of letting workers enjoy some of the produce they are harvesting (see Deuteronomy 25:4; compare 2 Timothy 2:6).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2-242-24. 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).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 24
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
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