Job 5:4
His children shall be far from safety, and shall be destroyed in the gate, and there shall be none to deliver them.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
3I have seen a fool with a strong root, and I cursed his beauty immediately.
Cross References
Exodus 20:5Thou shalt not adore them, nor serve them: I am the Lord thy God, mighty, jealous, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me:
Job 4:10The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the lioness, and the teeth of the whelps of lions are broken:
Job 10:7And shouldst know that I have done no wicked thing, whereas there is no man that can deliver out of thy hand.
Job 27:14If his sons be multiplied, they shall be for the sword, and his grandsons shall not be filled with bread.
Psalms 109:9May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
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 →