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11 Along the pathways they press out the oil;
    they tread the winepresses but themselves suffer thirst.
12 From the town the groans of the dying are heard,
    and those who are wounded cry out for help,
    yet God remains deaf to their prayer.
13 “There also are those who rebel against the light;
    they are ignorant of its ways
    and refuse to frequent its paths.

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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.