Job 5:4

Now his children have no safe place, and they are crushed before the judges, for no one takes up their cause.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.

In Context

3I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly the curse came on his house.

5Their produce is taken by him who has no food, and their grain goes to the poor, and he who is in need of water gets it from their spring.

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Cross References

Exodus 20:5You may not go down on your faces before them or give them worship: for I, the Lord your God, am a God who will not give his honour to another; and I will send punishment on the children for the wrongdoing of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation of my haters;

Job 4:10Though the noise of the lion and the sounding of his voice, may be loud, the teeth of the young lions are broken.

Job 10:7Though you see that I am not an evil-doer; and there is no one who is able to take a man out of your hands?

Job 27:14If his children are increased, it is for the sword; and his offspring have not enough bread.

Psalms 109:9Let his children have no father, and his wife be made a widow.

Psalms 119:155Salvation is far from evil-doers; for they have made no search for your rules.

Matthew Henry on Job 5:2-6

The Address of Eliphaz. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn? 2 For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one. 3 I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation. 4 His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them. 5 Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance. A very… Read the whole commentary →

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