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Job 24:10–12

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24:10They go about naked, without clothing,

and go hungry while they carry the sheaves.16

24:11They press out the olive oil between the rows of olive trees;17

they tread the winepresses while they are thirsty.18

24:12From the city the dying19 groan,

and the wounded20 cry out for help,

but God charges no one with wrongdoing.21

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Footnotes

  1. 16 The point should not be missed—amidst abundant harvests, carrying sheaves about, they are still going hungry.
  2. 17 The Hebrew term is שׁוּרֹתָם (shurotam), which may be translated “terraces” or “olive rows.” But that would not be the proper place to have a press to press the olives and make oil. E. Dhorme (Job, 360–61) proposes on the analogy of an Arabic word that this should be read as “millstones” (which he would also write in the dual). But the argument does not come from a clean cognate, but from a possible development of words. The meaning of “olive rows” works well enough.
  3. 18 The final verb, a preterite with the ו (vav) consecutive, is here interpreted as a circumstantial clause.
  4. 19 The as pointed reads “from the city of men they groan.” Most commentators change one vowel in מְתִים (métim) to get מֵתִים (metim) to get the active participle, “the dying.” This certainly fits the parallelism better, although sense could be made out of the .
  5. 20 Heb “the souls of the wounded,” which here refers to the wounded themselves.
  6. 21 The has the noun תִּפְלָה (tiflah) which means “folly; tastelessness” (cf. 1:22). The verb, which normally means “to place; to put,” would then be rendered “to impute; to charge.” This is certainly a workable translation in the context. Many commentators have emended the text, changing the noun to תְּפִלָּה (téfillah, “prayer”), and so then also the verb יָשִׂים (yasim, here “charges”) to יִשְׁמַע (yishma’, “hears”). It reads: “But God does not hear the prayer”—referring to the groans.

The NET Bible First Edition, Copyright 1996-2005 by Biblical Studies Press

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ESVEnglish Standard Version

They go about naked, without clothing;

hungry, they carry the sheaves;

among the olive rows of the wicked they make oil;

they tread the winepresses, but suffer thirst.

From out of the city the dying groan,

and the soul of the wounded cries for help;

yet God charges no one with wrong.

Copyright 2001 Crossway Bibles

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Lacking clothes, they go about naked;

they carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.

They crush olives among the terraces;

they tread the winepresses, yet suffer thirst.

The groans of the dying rise from the city,

and the souls of the wounded cry out for help.

But God charges no one with wrongdoing.

Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 Biblica, Inc.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Without clothing, they wander about naked.

They carry sheaves but go hungry.

They crush olives in their presses;

they tread the winepresses, but go thirsty.

From the city, men groan;

the mortally wounded cry for help,

yet God pays no attention to this crime.

Copyright 2017 Holman Bible Publishers

NLTNew Living Translation

The poor must go about naked, without any clothing.

They harvest food for others while they themselves are starving.

They press out olive oil without being allowed to taste it,

and they tread in the winepress as they suffer from thirst.

The groans of the dying rise from the city,

and the wounded cry for help,

yet God ignores their moaning.

Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers. All rights reserved.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

They go about naked, without clothing,

and hungry, they carry the sheaves.

Between their terraces they press out oil;

they tread the presses, but they are thirsty.

From the city people groan,

and the throat of the wounded cries for help;

yet God does not regard it as unseemly.

Copyright 2012 Lexham Press

KJV 1900King James Version

They cause him to go naked without clothing,

And they take away the sheaf from the hungry;

Which make oil within their walls,

And tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.

Men groan from out of the city,

And the soul of the wounded crieth out:

Yet God layeth not folly to them.

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