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11 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.
12 In the cities, people who are dying cry with pain.
They call for help,
    but God does not punish the people who have hurt them.

13 Some 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.

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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.