God’s Word Translation
Job 5:4
4His children are far from help. They are crushed at the city gate, and no one is there to rescue 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.
- 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
2Certainly, anger kills a stubborn fool, and jealousy murders a gullible person. 3I have seen a stubborn fool take root, but I quickly cursed his house. His children are far from help. They are crushed at the city gate, and no one is there to rescue them. 5What a stubborn fool gathers, hungry people eat. They take it even from among the thorns, and thirsty people pant after his wealth. 6Certainly, sorrow doesn’t come from the soil, and trouble doesn’t 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 4:10Though the roar of the lion and the growl of the ferocious lion ⌞is loud⌟, the young lions have had their teeth knocked out.
- Job 8:4If your children sinned against him, he allowed them to suffer the consequences of their sinfulness.
- Job 18:16His roots dry up under him. His branches wither over him.
- Job 27:14If he has many children, swords will kill them, and his descendants won’t have enough food.
- Exodus 20:5Never worship them or serve them, because I, the Lord your God, am a God who does not tolerate rivals. I punish children for their parents’ sins to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me.
- Psalms 109:9“Let his children become fatherless and his wife a widow.
- Psalms 119:155Wicked people are far from being saved, because they have not searched for your laws.
- Psalms 127:5Blessed is the man who has filled his quiver with them. He will not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the city gate.
- Job 1:19when suddenly a great storm swept across the desert and struck the four corners of the house. It fell on the young people, and they died. I’m the only one who has escaped to tell you.”
- Luke 13:4What about those 18 people who died when the tower at Siloam fell on them? Do you think that they were more sinful than other people living in Jerusalem?
- Job 10:7You know I’m not guilty, but there is no one to rescue me from your hands.
- Psalms 7:2Like a lion they will tear me to pieces and drag me off 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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