Job 24:11

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

9They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor: 10These go naked without clothing, and, hungry, they bear the sheaf; They press out oil within their walls, they tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst. 12Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out; and God imputeth not the impiety. 13There are those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.

Job 24:11 word by word

בֵּין־שׁוּרֹתָ֥ם יַצְהִ֑ירוּ יְקָבִ֥ים דָּ֝רְכ֗וּ וַיִּצְמָֽאוּ׃Read the interlinear

• wallsשׁוּרshûr · wallH7791
• treadדָּרַךְdârak · to treadH1869
• winepressesיֶ֫קֶבyeqeb · wineH3342

Cross-references for Job 24:11

• Deuteronomy 25:4Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out [the corn].
• Jeremiah 22:13Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his upper chambers by injustice; that taketh his neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him not his earning;
• James 5:4Behold, the wages of your labourers, who have harvested your fields, wrongfully kept back by you, cry, and the cries of those that have reaped are entered into the ears of [the] Lord of sabaoth.

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

Topics related to Job 24:11

• Dishonesty
• Homicide
• Wicked (People)

In the dictionaries

• Covering
• Light
• Pluck
• Tread
• Wine
• Winepress
• Job, Book of
• Palestine
• Suffering

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