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Job 24:11
11They squeeze oil from olives that grow in the fields of other people. They also make wine from other people's grapes. But they themselves are 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
9When wicked people lend money to poor people, they even take a child whose father has died away from his mother. 10Poor people have to go out with no clothes to wear. They are hungry while they carry the crops of other people. They squeeze oil from olives that grow in the fields of other people. They also make wine from other people's grapes. But they themselves are thirsty. 12In the cities, people who are dying cry with pain. They call for help, but God does not punish the people who have hurt them. 13Some people refuse to live in the light. They do not understand it. They do not go along the good way that it shows to them.
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 25:4Do not tie shut the mouth of your ox while it walks on your grain to prepare it for you.
- Jeremiah 22:13The Lord says, ‘Terrible trouble will happen to this man! He cheats people so that he can build a beautiful palace for himself. He does not do what is right and fair. He does not pay the people who work for him. His own men have to work for nothing.
- James 5:4But you have not paid the workers in your fields the money that you should have paid them. You have cheated them. Now they are shouting against you. The Lord of great power has heard them when they cry to him for help.
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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