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Job 24:11

Who make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, yet suffer thirst.
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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849
Of them. Hebrew, "of corn, and thirst while pressing out their olives. "(Calmet) Protestants, "they take away the sheaf from the hungry, (11) which make oil within their walls, and tread their wine-presses, and suffer thirst "(Haydock) not being allowed to taste any thing, though the law of Moses would not suffer even the ox to be muzzled, Deuteronomy xxv. 4. The rich look on without pity, taking their rest at noon, amid the heaps which really belong to the poor, whom they force to labour for them.
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