King James Version

Job 24:6

They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.

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בַּ֭שָּׂדֶהbasadehin fieldשָׂדֶהpreposition, with the article, noun, common, masculine, singular, absolute — “in field”, the ordinary formH7704a field (as flat)country, field, ground, land, soil, [idiom] wild.בְּלִיל֣וֹbelilvocornבְּלִילnoun, common, masculine, singular, construct, suffix, pronominal, 3rd person, masculine, singular — “corn”, the of-form, joined to the next wordH1098mixed, i.e. (specifically) feed (for cattle)corn, fodder, provender.יקצירוyqtsyrvmuch discouragedקָצַרverb, hiphil, imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, plural — “much discouraged”, an unfinished actionH7114to dock off, i.e. curtail (transitive or intransitive, literal or figurative); especially to harvest (grass or grain)[idiom] at all, cut down, much discouraged, grieve, harvestman, lothe, mourn, reap(-er), (be, wax) short(-en, -er), straiten, trouble, vex.יִקְצ֑וֹרוּyiqtsorvmuch discouragedקָצַרverb, qal, imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, plural — “much discouraged”, an unfinished actionH7114to dock off, i.e. curtail (transitive or intransitive, literal or figurative); especially to harvest (grass or grain)[idiom] at all, cut down, much discouraged, grieve, harvestman, lothe, mourn, reap(-er), (be, wax) short(-en, -er), straiten, trouble, vex.וְכֶ֖רֶםvekheremand vineyardכֶּרֶםconjunction, noun, common, both genders, singular, absolute — “and vineyard”, the ordinary formH3754a garden or vineyardvines, (increase of the) vineyard(-s), vintage. See also H1021 (בֵּית הַכֶּרֶם).רָשָׁ֣עrashaguiltyרָשָׁעadjective, adjective, masculine, singular, absolute — “guilty”, the ordinary formH7563morally wrong; concretely, an (actively) bad person[phrase] condemned, guilty, ungodly, wicked (man), that did wrong.יְלַקֵּֽשׁוּyelaqeshvgatherלָקַשׁverb, piel, imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, plural — “gather”, an unfinished actionH3953to gather the after cropgather.

Jewish translation (JPS 1917)

They cut his provender in the field; and they despoil the vineyard of the wicked.

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American Standard Version (1901)

They cut their provender in the field; And they glean the vintage of the wicked.

Young’s Literal Translation

In a field his provender they reap, And the vineyard of the wicked they glean.

World English Bible

They cut their food in the field. They glean the vineyard of the wicked.

Darby Translation

They reap in the field the fodder thereof, and they gather the vintage of the wicked;

Douay-Rheims

They reap the field that is not their own, and gather the vintage of his vineyard whom by violence they have oppressed.

Jewish Publication Society (1917)

They cut his provender in the field; and they despoil the vineyard of the wicked.

Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English

They have reaped a field that was not their own before the time: the poor have laboured in the vineyards of the ungodly without pay and without food.

Septuagint (Brenton’s Greek, 1851)

Ἀγρὸν πρὸ ὥρας οὐκ αὐτῶν ὄντα ἐθέρισαν· ἀδύνατοι ἀμπελῶνας ἀσεβῶν ἀμισθὶ καὶ ἀσιτὶ εἰργάσαντο.