Job 5:4
His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, and there is no deliverer:
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
3I myself saw the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
Cross References
Exodus 20:5thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them; for I, Jehovah thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons to the third and to the fourth [generation] of them that hate me,
Job 4:10The roar of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken;
Job 10:7Since thou knowest that I am not wicked, and that there is none that delivereth out of thy hand?
Job 27:14If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword, and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread;
Psalms 109:9Let his sons be fatherless, and his wife a widow;
Psalms 119:155Salvation is far from the wicked; for they seek not thy statutes.
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 →