“Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.”
Job 24:11 (KJV) |
Job 24:11
From Job 24, in the Book of Job (Old Testament).
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They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;
Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.
They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.