Job 24:11

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

biblegateway Job 24:11

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

biblegateway Job 24:11

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

biblegateway Job 24:11

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

biblegateway Job 24:11

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

SABDAweb Job 24:11

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

bibleoremus Job 24:11

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

biblegateway Job 24:11

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

biblegateway Job 24:11

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

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.