11 Within the walls they produce oil;
They tread wine presses but go thirsty.
12 From the city people groan,
And the souls of the wounded cry for help;
Yet God (A)does not pay attention to the offensiveness.

13 [a]Others have been with those who rebel against the light;
They do not want to know its ways
Nor stay in its paths.

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  1. Job 24:13 Lit They

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.