11 They crush olives in their presses;[a]
they tread the winepresses, but go thirsty.
12 From the city, men[b] groan;
the mortally wounded cry for help,
yet God pays no attention to this crime.(A)

13 The wicked are those who rebel against the light.
They do not recognize its ways
or stay on its paths.

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Footnotes

  1. 24:11 Lit olives between their rows
  2. 24:12 One Hb ms, Syr read the dying

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

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

12 Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.

13 They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.

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