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11 They crush olives to get oil.
    And they crush grapes in the winepresses, but they still are thirsty.
12 Dying people groan in the city.
    People who are injured cry out for help.
    But God accuses no one of doing wrong.

13 “There are people who fight against the light.
    God’s ways are strange to them.
    And they do not stay in the lighted path.

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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.