English Standard Version
Job 5:4
4His children are far from safety; they are crushed in the gate, and there is no one to deliver them.
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.
- New King James Version (NKJV)His sons are far from safety, They are crushed in the gate, And there is no deliverer.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Their children are abandoned far from help; they are crushed in court with no one to defend them.
Context of Job 5:4
2Surely vexation kills the fool, and jealousy slays the simple. 3I have seen the fool taking root, but suddenly I cursed his dwelling. His children are far from safety; they are crushed in the gate, and there is no one to deliver them. 5The hungry eat his harvest, and he takes it even out of thorns, and the thirsty pant after his wealth. 6For affliction does not come from the dust, nor does trouble sprout from the ground,
Read all of Job 5Job 5:4 word by word
יִרְחֲק֣וּ בָנָ֣יו מִיֶּ֑שַׁע וְיִֽדַּכְּא֥וּ בַ֝שַּׁ֗עַר וְאֵ֣ין מַצִּֽיל׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 5:4
- Job 4:10The roar of the lion, the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions are broken.
- Job 8:4If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the hand of their transgression.
- Job 18:16His roots dry up beneath, and his branches wither above.
- Job 27:14If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword, and his descendants have not enough bread.
- Exodus 20:5You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation 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, for they do not seek your statutes.
- Psalms 127:5Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.
- Job 1:19and behold, a great wind came across the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young people, and they are dead, and I alone have escaped to tell you."
- Luke 13:4Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them: do you think that they were worse offenders than all the others who lived in Jerusalem?
- Job 10:7although you know that I am not guilty, and there is none to deliver out of your hand?
- Psalms 7:2lest like a lion they tear my soul apart, rending it in pieces, with none to deliver.
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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