11 They that make oil [a]between their walls, and tread their winepresses, suffer thirst.

12 Men [b]cry out of the city, and the souls of the slain [c]cry out: yet God [d]doth not charge them with folly.

13 These are they that abhor the [e]light: they know not the ways thereof, nor continue in the paths thereof.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 24:11 In such places which are appointed for that purpose: meaning, that those that labor for the wicked, are pined for hunger.
  2. Job 24:12 For the great oppression and extortion.
  3. Job 24:12 Cry out and call for vengeance.
  4. Job 24:12 God doth not condemn the wicked, but seemeth to pass over it by his long silence.
  5. Job 24:13 That is, God’s word, because they are reproved thereby.

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