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11 They press oil between the olive groves owned by the wicked;
    they suffer from thirst, even while treading the winepress.
12 From the city, dying men groan aloud,
    and the wounded cries out for help,
        but God charges no one with wrong.

13 “Then there are those who rebel against the light;
    they are not acquainted with its ways;
        and they don’t stay on its course.[a]

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  1. Job 24:13 Or path

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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