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11     They are stationed among the terraces[a]
        pressing oil from the olive that calls to their hunger;
        they trample in winepresses, extracting the juice for which they thirst.
12     At the outskirts of the city, the oppressed groan,
        wounded souls crying for help,
        but God fails to charge the guilty who have brought them such pain.

13     They were among those who rebel against the light.
        They don’t want to know what makes it shine,
        nor do they live their lives in its paths.

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  1. 24:11 Meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.

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

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

12 Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.

13 They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.

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