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11 They press olives for oil, and grapes for wine,
    but they themselves are thirsty.
12 In the cities the wounded and dying cry out,
    but God ignores their prayers.

13 There are those who reject the light;
    they don't understand it or go where it leads.

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11 They crush olives among the terraces[a];
    they tread the winepresses,(A) yet suffer thirst.(B)
12 The groans of the dying rise from the city,
    and the souls of the wounded cry out for help.(C)
    But God charges no one with wrongdoing.(D)

13 “There are those who rebel against the light,(E)
    who do not know its ways
    or stay in its paths.(F)

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Footnotes

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