Job 24:11

What does Job 24:11 mean?

A plain-English look at Job 24:11 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

They make oil within the walls of these men; They treadtheirwinepresses, and suffer thirst.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

They make oil within the walls of these men; They treadtheirwinepresses, and suffer thirst.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

Between the lines of olive-trees they make oil; though they have no drink, they are crushing out the grapes.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

Between their walls they make oil, Wine-presses they have trodden, and thirst.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

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

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

They press out oil within their walls, they tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.

Context

v.10So thatthey go about naked without clothing, And being hungry they carry the sheaves.

v.11This passage

v.12From out of the populous city men groan, And the soul of the wounded crieth out: Yet God regardeth not the folly.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Deuteronomy 25:4

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

  • James 5:4

    Behold, the hire of the laborers who mowed your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth out: and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.

  • Jeremiah 22:13

    Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by injustice; that useth his neighbor’s service without wages, and giveth him not his hire;

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