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10 That is why the poor go around naked.
    They are hungry, yet they carry bundles of grain.
11 They press out olive oil between rows of olive trees.
    They stomp on grapes in wine vats, yet they are thirsty.
12 Those dying in the city groan.
    Wounded people cry for help,
    but Eloah pays no attention to their prayers.

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10 Lacking clothes, they go about naked;(A)
    they carry the sheaves,(B) but still go hungry.
11 They crush olives among the terraces[a];
    they tread the winepresses,(C) yet suffer thirst.(D)
12 The groans of the dying rise from the city,
    and the souls of the wounded cry out for help.(E)
    But God charges no one with wrongdoing.(F)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 24:11 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.