Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
Job 24:11 belongs to Job's description in chapter 24 of wicked oppressors who remove landmarks, violently take away flocks and feed on them, drive away the donkey of the fatherless, take the widow's ox for a pledge, and turn the needy out of the way. Job sets the lives of those oppressors in contrast with his own life of delivering the poor that cried and the fatherless and him that had none to help him. That life included causing the widow's heart to sing for joy, and being eyes to the blind and feet to the lame and a father to the poor. By that contrast Job intended a complete justification of himself and a vindication of his own self-righteousness against the charges of his friends.
Job 24:11 belongs to Job's description in chapter 24 of wicked oppressors who remove landmarks, violently take away flocks and feed on them, drive away the donkey of the fatherless, take the widow's ox for a pledge, and turn the needy out of the way. Job sets the lives of those oppressors in contrast with his own life of delivering the poor that cried and the fatherless and him that had none to help him. That life included causing the widow's heart to sing for joy, and being eyes to the blind and feet to the lame and a father to the poor. By that contrast Job intended a complete justification of himself and a vindication of his own self-righteousness against the charges of his friends.