Job 5:4

His sons are far from safety, || And they are bruised in the gate, || And there is no deliverer.

Literal Standard Version

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 perverse taking root, || And I mark his habitation straight away,

5Whose harvest the hungry eat, || And even take it from the thorns, || And the designing swallowed their wealth.

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Cross References

Exodus 20:5You do not bow yourself to them, nor serve them: for I, your God YHWH, [am] a zealous God, charging iniquity of fathers on sons, on a third and on a fourth [generation] of those hating Me,

Job 4:10The roaring of a lion, || And the voice of a fierce lion, || And teeth of young lions have been broken.

Job 10:7For You know that I am not wicked, || And there is no deliverer from Your hand.

Job 27:14If his sons multiply—a sword [is] for them. And his offspring [are] not satisfied [with] bread.

Psalms 109:9His sons are fatherless, and his wife a widow.

Psalms 119:155Salvation [is] far from the wicked, || For they have not sought Your 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 →

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