11 Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
11 They crush olives among the terraces
11 among the olive rows of the wicked
11 No matter how back-breaking their labor, they can never make ends meet.
11 They press out oil within their walls, And tread winepresses, yet suffer thirst.
11 They press out olive oil without being allowed to taste it, and they tread in the winepress as they suffer from thirst.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 24:11
Commentary on Job 24:1-12
(Read Job 24:1-12)
Job discourses further about the prosperity of the wicked. That many live at ease who are ungodly and profane, he had showed, ch. xxi. Here he shows that many who live in open defiance of all the laws of justice, succeed in wicked practices; and we do not see them reckoned with in this world. He notices those that do wrong under pretence of law and authority; and robbers, those that do wrong by force. He says, "God layeth not folly to them;" that is, he does not at once send his judgments, nor make them examples, and so manifest their folly to all the world. But he that gets riches, and not by right, at his end shall be a fool, Jeremiah 17:11.