Job 5:4
His children are far removed from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, and there is none to deliver:
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
3I, have seen the foolish taking root, and then hath his home decayed, in a moment:
Cross References
Exodus 20:5thou shalt not bow thyself down to them nor be led to serve them—For, I, Yahweh, thy God, am a jealous GOD, visiting the iniquity of fathers upon sons, unto three [generations] and, unto four, of them that hate me;
Job 4:10[Notwithstanding] the roaring of the lion, and the noise of the howling lion, yet, the teeth of the fierce lions, are broken:
Job 10:7Though it is, within thine own knowledge, that I would not be lawless, and, none, out of thy hand, can deliver?
Job 27:14If his children be multiplied, for them, [there is] the sword, and, his offspring, shall not be filled with bread;
Psalms 109:9Let his children become fatherless, and his wife a widow;
Psalms 119:155Far from the lawless, is salvation, For, thy statutes, have they not sought.
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 →