Job 5:4
His children are far from help, and men crush them in the gate, with no one to deliver them.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
3I have myself seen the foolish taking root; but I suddenly held his habitation as accursed.
Cross References
Exodus 20:5Thou shalt not bow thyself down to them, nor serve them; for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, 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 fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
Job 10:7Still it is within thy knowledge that I am not wicked, and there is none that can deliver me out of thy hand.
Job 27:14If his children be multiplied, it is only for the sword; and his offspring will not be satisfied with bread.
Psalms 109:9Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
Psalms 119:155Far from the wicked is salvation; because thy statutes have they not sought for.
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 →