Job 24:11

11. Within their walls Compare Proverbs 24:31.

Tread… presses See note, Job 1:13. Wilkinson ( Domestic Life, etc., 24:63-65) says of the ancient Egyptians: “Their winepress was frequently in or near the vineyard; the grapes were trodden by the feet, but they were subjected to another process of twisting in a bag,” etc.

And suffer thirst Mr Addison, in one of his letters from Italy, presents a similar picture of its “poor inhabitant,” who:

Starves, in the midst of nature’s bounty curst,

And in the loaden vineyard dies for thirst.