Berean Standard Bible
Job 5:4
4His sons are far from safety, crushed in court without a defender.
Job 5:4 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
- New International Version (NIV)His children are far from safety, crushed in court without a defender.
- English Standard Version (ESV)His children are far from safety; they are crushed in the gate, and there is no one to deliver them.
- New King James Version (NKJV)His sons are far from safety, They are crushed in the gate, And there is no deliverer.
Context of Job 5:4
2For resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple. 3I have seen a fool taking root, but suddenly his house was cursed. His sons are far from safety, crushed in court without a defender. 5The hungry consume his harvest, taking it even from the thorns, and the thirsty pant after his wealth. 6For distress does not spring from the dust, and trouble does not sprout from the ground.
Read all of Job 5Job 5:4 word by word
יִרְחֲק֣וּ בָנָ֣יו מִיֶּ֑שַׁע וְיִֽדַּכְּא֥וּ בַ֝שַּׁ֗עַר וְאֵ֣ין מַצִּֽיל׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Job 5:4
- Job 4:10The lion may roar, and the fierce lion may growl, yet the teeth of the young lions are broken.
- Job 8:4When your children sinned against Him, He gave them over to their rebellion.
- Job 18:16The roots beneath him dry up, and the branches above him wither away.
- Job 27:14Though his sons are many, they are destined for the sword; and his offspring will never have enough food.
- Exodus 20:5You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
- Psalms 109:9May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.
- Psalms 119:155Salvation is far from the wicked because they do not seek Your statutes.
- Psalms 127:5Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. He will not be put to shame when he confronts the enemies at the gate.
- Job 1:19when suddenly a mighty wind swept in from the desert and struck the four corners of the house. It collapsed on the young people and they are dead, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”
- Luke 13:4Or those eighteen who were killed when the tower of Siloam collapsed on them: Do you think that they were more sinful than all the others living in Jerusalem?
- Job 10:7though You know that I am not guilty, and there is no deliverance from Your hand?
- Psalms 7:2or they will shred my soul like a lion and tear me to pieces with no one to rescue me.
Commentaries on Job 5:4
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 4His 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…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4His 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…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 4in court: Literally this reads, in the gate. At that time, legal and business discussions happened. Job participated in these discussions (29:7; see Deuteronomy 21:19–21; Ruth 4:1–11).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 44. His children ... crushed in the gate--A judicial formula. The gate was the place of judgment and of other public proceedings (Psa 127:5; Pr 22:22; Ge 23:10; De 21:19). Such propylæa have been found in the Assyrian remains. Eliphaz obliquely alludes to the calamity which cut off Job's children.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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