Job 24:11

NETBible

They press out the olive oil between the rows of olive trees; 1  they tread the winepresses while they are thirsty. 2 

NIV ©

They crush olives among the terraces; they tread the winepresses, yet suffer thirst.

NASB ©

"Within the walls they produce oil; They tread wine presses but thirst.

NLT ©

They press out olive oil without being allowed to taste it, and they tread in the winepress as they suffer from thirst.

MSG ©

No matter how back-breaking their labor, they can never make ends meet.

BBE ©

Between the lines of olive-trees they make oil; though they have no drink, they are crushing out the grapes.

NRSV ©

between their terraces they press out oil; they tread the wine presses, but suffer thirst.

NKJV ©

They press out oil within their walls, And tread winepresses, yet suffer thirst.

KJV
[Which] make oil
<06671> (8686)
within
<0996>
their walls
<07791>_,
[and] tread
<01869> (8804)
[their] winepresses
<03342>_,
and suffer thirst
<06770> (8799)_.
NASB ©
"Within
<996>
the walls
<7791>
they produce
<6671>
oil
<6671>
; They tread
<1869>
wine
<3342>
presses
<3342>
but thirst
<6770>
.
LXXM
en
<1722> 
PREP
stenoiv
<4728> 
A-DPM
adikwv
<94> 
ADV
enhdreusan
<1748> 
V-AAI-3P
odon
<3598> 
N-ASF
de
<1161> 
PRT
dikaian
<1342> 
A-ASF
ouk
<3364> 
ADV
hdeisan {V-YAI-3P}
NET [draft] ITL
They press out the olive oil
<06671>
between
<0996>
the rows
<07791>
of olive trees; they tread
<01869>
the winepresses
<03342>
while they are thirsty
<06770>
.
HEBREW
wamuyw
<06770>
wkrd
<01869>
Mybqy
<03342>
wryhuy
<06671>
Mtrws
<07791>
Nyb (24:11)
<0996>
NETBible

They press out the olive oil between the rows of olive trees; 1  they tread the winepresses while they are thirsty. 2 

NET Notes

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