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11 Among the olive rows [of the wicked, the poor] make oil; they tread [the fresh juice of the grape from] the presses, but suffer thirst.

12 From out of the populous city men groan, and the very life of the wounded cries for help; yet God [seemingly] regards not the wrong done them.

13 These wrongdoers are of those who rebel against the light; they know not its ways nor stay in its paths.

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11 They crush olives among the terraces[a];
    they tread the winepresses,(A) yet suffer thirst.(B)
12 The groans of the dying rise from the city,
    and the souls of the wounded cry out for help.(C)
    But God charges no one with wrongdoing.(D)

13 “There are those who rebel against the light,(E)
    who do not know its ways
    or stay in its paths.(F)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 24:11 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.