Job 5:4

Let their children be far from safety, and let them be crushed at the doors of vile men, and let there be no deliverer.

Brenton Septuagint

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

3And I have seen foolish ones taking root: but suddenly their habitation was devoured.

5For what they have collected, the just shall eat; but they shall not be delivered out of calamities: let their strength be utterly exhausted.

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Cross References

Exodus 20:5Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor serve them; for I am the Lord thy God, a jealous God, recompensing the sins of the fathers upon the children, to the third and fourth generation to them that hate me,

Job 4:10The strength of the lion, and the voice of the lioness, and the exulting cry of serpents are quenched.

Job 10:7For thou knowest that I have not committed iniquity: but who is he that can deliver out of thy hands?

Job 27:14And if their children be many, they shall be for slaughter: and if they grow up, they shall beg.

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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