Job 5:4
His children are far from safety; They are oppressed at the gate, and there is none to deliver them.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
3I have seen an impious man taking root, But soon I cursed his habitation.
Cross References
Job 4:10The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, And the teeth of the young lions are broken.
Job 10:7Though thou knowest that I am not guilty, And that none can deliver from thy hand?
Job 27:14If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword; And his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
Psalms 109:9May his children be fatherless, And his wife a widow!
Psalms 119:155Salvation is far from the wicked, Because 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 →