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Job 5:4
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His children are far from safety.They are crushed at the city gate,with no one to rescue them.
His children are far from safety, They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,
His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
His children are far from safety; they are crushed in the gate, and there is no one to deliver them.
His children are far from safety, and they are crushed at the place where judgment is rendered, nor is there anyone to deliver them.
"His children are far from safety [and included in their father's ruin], They are oppressed and crushed in the [court of justice in the city's] gate, And there is no one to rescue them.
"His sons are far from safety, They are also oppressed at the gate, And there is no one to save them.
His children are far from safety, They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,
His children shalbe farre from saluation, and they shall be destroyed in the gate, & none shall deliuer them.
His sons are far from salvation,They are even crushed in the gate,And there is no deliverer.
His sons are far from safety, crushed in court without a defender.
and leaving their children helpless in court.
his children are far from help, publicly humiliated, with no one to rescue;
His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, and there is no deliverer:
There was no one to help his children. No one defended them in court.
His children are far from salvation, and they are humiliated at the gate, and there is no one to deliver them.
Their children can never find safety; no one stands up to defend them in court.
His children are far from deliverance, and they are crushed in the gate, and there is no deliverer—
His sons are far from safety; yea, they are crushed in the gate; nor is there any deliverer.
that his children were without prosperite or health: that they were slayne in the dore, and no ma to delyuer them:
His children are far from safety, And they are crushed in the gate, Neither is there any to deliver them:
Now his children have no safe place, and they are crushed before the judges, for no one takes up their cause.
His children were without prosperitie, and they were slayne in the gate, and there was no man to deliuer them.
His children are far from safety, and are crushed in the gate, with none to deliver them.
His children are farre from safetie, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliuer them.
Let their children be far from safety, and let them be crushed at the doors of vile men, and let there be no deliverer.
His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
Hise sones schulen be maad fer fro helthe, and thei schulen be defoulid in the yate, and `noon schal be that schal delyuere hem.
His sons are far from safety, And they are crushed in the gate, Neither is there any to deliver them:
His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither [is there] any to deliver [them].
His sons are far from safety, They are crushed in the gate, And there is no deliverer.
Their children are abandoned far from help; they are crushed in court with no one to defend them.
His sons are far from being safe. They are destroyed in the gate, and there is no one to help them.
Their children are far from safety, they are crushed in the gate, and there is no one to deliver them.
His children are far removed from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, and there is none to deliver:
His children shall be far from safety, and shall be destroyed in the gate, and there shall be none to deliver them.
His sons are far from safety, they are crushed in the gate, and there is no one to deliver them.
Far are his sons from safety, And they are bruised in the gate, And there is no deliverer.
"His sons are far from safety, They are even oppressed in the gate, And there is no deliverer.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
children: Job 4:10, Job 4:11, Job 8:4, Job 18:16-19, Job 27:14, Exodus 20:5, Psalms 109:9-15, Psalms 119:155, Psalms 127:5
they are crushed: Job 1:19, Luke 13:4, Luke 13:5
neither: Job 10:7, Psalms 7:2
Reciprocal: Joshua 20:4 - at the entering 2 Chronicles 21:17 - carried away Job 19:3 - ye reproached Job 21:8 - General Job 31:8 - let my Proverbs 12:7 - wicked Lamentations 5:8 - there
Cross-References
God blessed them and said, "Have many children and grow in number. Fill the earth and be its master. Rule over the fish in the sea and over the birds in the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth."
This is the family history of Adam. When God created human beings, he made them in his own likeness.
When Adam was 130 years old, he became the father of another son in his likeness and image, and Adam named him Seth.
After Enosh was born, Seth lived 807 years and had other sons and daughters.
After Kenan was born, Enosh lived 815 years and had other sons and daughters.
After Mahalalel was born, Kenan lived 840 years and had other sons and daughters.
After Enoch was born, Jared lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters.
After Methuselah was born, Enoch walked with God 300 years more and had other sons and daughters.
After Lamech was born, Methuselah lived 782 years and had other sons and daughters.
After Noah was born, Lamech lived 595 years and had other sons and daughters.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
His children are far from safety,.... From outward safety, from evils and dangers, to which they are liable and exposed, not only from men, who hate them for their father's sake, who have been oppressors of them, or from God, who visits the iniquity of the fathers upon the children; and from spiritual and eternal safety or "salvation", or from salvation in the world to come, as the Targum, they treading in their fathers steps, and imitating their actions:
and they are crushed in the gate; or openly, publicly, as Aben Ezra and others; or in the courts of judicature whither they are brought by those their parents had oppressed, and where they are cast, and have no favour shown them; or literally by the falling of the gate upon them; and perhaps some reference is had to Job's children being crushed in the gate or door of the house, through which they endeavoured to get when it fell upon them and destroyed them; the Targum is,
"and are crushed in the gates of hell, in the day of the great judgment:''
neither [is there] any to deliver [them]; neither God nor man, they having no interest in either, or favour with, partly on account of their father's ill behaviour, and partly on account of their own; and sad is the case of men when it is such, see Psalms 50:21.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
His children are far from safety - That is, this is soon manifest by their being cut off or subjected to calamity. The object of Eliphaz is, to state the result of his own observation, and to show how calamity overtook the wicked though they even prospered for a time. He begins with that which a man would feel most - the calamity which comes upon his children, and says that God would punish him in them. Every word of this would go to the heart of Job; for he could not but feel that it was aimed at him, and that the design was to prove that the calamities that had come upon his children were a proof of his own wickedness and of the divine displeasure. It is remarkable that Job listens to this with the utmost patience. There is no interruption of the speaker; no breaking in upon the argument of his friend; no mark of uneasiness. Oriental politeness required that a speaker should be heard attentively through whatever he might say. See the Introduction, Section 7. Cutting and severe, therefore, as this strain of remark must have been, the sufferer sat meekly and heard it all, and waited for the appropriate time when an answer might be returned.
And they are crushed in the gate - The gate of a city in ancient times was the chief place of concourse, and was the place where public business was usually transacted, and where courts of justice were held; see Genesis 23:10; Deuteronomy 21:19; Deuteronomy 25:6-7; Ruth 4:1 ff: Psalms 127:5; Proverbs 22:22. The Greeks also held their courts in some public place of business. Hence, the forum, ἀγορά agora, was also a place for fairs. See Jahn’s Archaeology, section 247. Some suppose that the meaning here is, that they were oppressed and trodden down by the concourse in the gate. But the more probable meaning is, that they found no one to advocate their cause; that they were subject to oppression and injustice in judicial decisions, and then when their parent was dead, no one would stand up to vindicate them from respect to his memory. The idea is, that though there might be temporary prosperity, yet that it would not be long before heavy calamities would come upon the children of the wicked.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 5:4. His children are far from safety — His posterity shall not continue in prosperity. Ill gotten, ill spent; whatever is got by wrong must have God's curse on it.
They are crushed in the gate — The Targum says, They shall be bruised in the gate of hell, in the day of the great judgment. There is reference here to a custom which I have often had occasion to notice: viz., that in the Eastern countries the court-house, or tribunal of justice, was at the GATE of the city; here the magistrates attended, and hither the plaintiff and defendant came for justice.
