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Job 24:11

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

they tread the winepresses while they are thirsty.18

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  1. 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.
  2. 18 The final verb, a preterite with the ו (vav) consecutive, is here interpreted as a circumstantial clause.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

among the olive rows of the wicked they make oil;

they tread the winepresses, but suffer thirst.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

They crush olives among the terraces;

they tread the winepresses, yet suffer thirst.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

They crush olives in their presses;

they tread the winepresses, but go thirsty.

NLTNew Living Translation

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

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

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Between their terraces they press out oil;

they tread the presses, but they are thirsty.

KJV 1900King James Version

Which make oil within their walls,

And tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.