Job 5:4

His sons shall be made far from health, and they shall be defouled in the gate, and there shall be none that shall deliver them. (Yea, his sons shall be made far from help, and they shall be reviled in the court, and there shall be no one who shall save them.)

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

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 saw a fool with [a] steadfast root, and I cursed his fairness anon (or and at once I cursed his dwelling place).

5Whose ripe corn an hungry man shall eat, and an armed man shall ravish him, and they, that thirst, shall drink his riches. (A hungry man shall eat his harvest, and an armed man shall rob him, and they, who thirst, shall drink his riches.)

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Cross References

Exodus 20:5thou shalt not bow down to them, neither worship them; for I am thy Lord God, a strong (ly) jealous lover; I visit the wickedness of (the) fathers in (the) children into the third and fourth generation of them that hated me, (thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worship them; for I, the Lord thy God, am a jealous God; I punish the children for the wickedness of their fathers, unto the third and fourth generations of those who hate me,)

Job 4:10The roaring of a lion, and the voice of a lioness, and the teeth of (the) whelps of lions, be all-broken.

Job 10:7And thou, Lord, know, that I have done no wicked thing; since there is no man, that may deliver from thine hand? (And Lord, thou knowest that I have done no wicked thing; and there is no one who can rescue me out of thy hand.)

Job 27:14If his children be multiplied, they shall be killed with (the) sword; and his sons shall not be [ful] filled with bread.

Psalms 109:9(Let) His sons be made fatherless; and his wife a widow.

Psalms 119:155Health is far from sinners; for they sought not thy justifyings. (Salvation is far from sinners; for they did not search out thy statutes or for they do not obey thy laws.)

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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