Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

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

King James Version

Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.

Holman Bible

They crush olives in their presses;
they tread the winepresses, but go thirsty.

International Standard Version

They press oil between the olive groves owned by the wicked; they suffer from thirst, even while treading the winepress.

A Conservative Version

They make oil within the walls of these men. They tread [their] winepresses, and suffer thirst.

American Standard Version

They make oil within the walls of these men; They tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.

Amplified


“Within the walls [of the wicked] the poor make [olive] oil;
They tread [the grapes in] the wine presses, but thirst.

Bible in Basic English

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

Darby Translation

They press out oil within their walls, they tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.

Julia Smith Translation

Between their walls they will press out oil; they trod their wine-presses, and they will thirst

King James 2000

Who make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, yet suffer thirst.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Between their terraces they press out oil; they tread [the] presses, but they are thirsty.

Modern King James verseion

They press out oil between their walls; they tread their winepresses, and still suffer thirst.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

The poor are fain to labour in their oil mills, yea and to tread in their wine presses, and yet to suffer thirst.

NET Bible

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

New Heart English Bible

They make oil within the walls of these men. They tread wine presses, and suffer thirst.

The Emphasized Bible

Between their walls, are they exposed to the sun, Wine-presses, they tread, and yet are thirsty;

Webster

Who make oil within their walls, and tread their wine-presses, and suffer thirst.

World English Bible

They make oil within the walls of these men. They tread wine presses, and suffer thirst.

Youngs Literal Translation

Between their walls they make oil, Wine-presses they have trodden, and thirst.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
צהר 
Tsahar 
Usage: 1

בּין 
Beyn 
Usage: 284

שׁוּר 
Shuwr 
Usage: 5

and tread
דּרך 
Darak 
Usage: 63

יקב 
Yeqeb 
Usage: 16

References

Easton

Fausets

Morish

Smith

Context Readings

Job's Eighth Speech, Continued

10 “They cause the poor to go about naked without clothing,
And they take away the sheaves from the hungry.
11 “Within the walls they produce oil;
They tread wine presses but thirst.
12 “From the city men groan,
And the souls of the wounded cry out;
Yet God does not pay attention to folly.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 25:4

You shall not muzzle the ox while he is threshing.

Jeremiah 22:13

“Woe to him who builds his house without righteousness
And his upper rooms without justice,
Who uses his neighbor’s services without pay
And does not give him his wages,

James 5:4

Behold, the pay of the laborers who mowed your fields, and which has been withheld by you, cries out against you; and the outcry of those who did the harvesting has reached the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.

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