KJV King James Version
[Which] make oil within their walls, [and] tread [their] winepresses, and suffer thirst.
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Job 24:11
[Which] make oil within their walls, [and] tread [their] winepresses, and suffer thirst.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
They crush olives within their walls; they tread the winepresses, but go thirsty.
WEB World English Bible
They make oil within the walls of these men. They tread wine presses, and suffer thirst.
ASV American Standard Version
They make oil within the walls of these men; They tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Between their walls they make oil, Wine-presses they have trodden, and thirst.
Surrounding context — Job 24
8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
9 They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
10 They cause [him] to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf [from] the hungry;
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.
14 The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
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Jeremiah 22:13Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; [that] useth his neighbour’s service without wages, and giveth him not for his work;James 5:4Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.Deuteronomy 25:4Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out [the corn].
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