New American Standard Bible 2020
Job 5:4
4His 1sons are far from safety, They are also 2oppressed at the gate, And there is no one to save 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
2For irritation kills the fool, And jealousy brings death to the simple. 3I have seen the fool taking root, And I cursed his home immediately. His sons are far from safety, They are also oppressed at the gate, And there is no one to save them. 5The hungry devour his harvest And take it to a place of thorns, And the schemer is eager for their wealth. 6For disaster 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
Cross-references for Job 5:4
- Job 4:10The roaring of the lion and the voice of the fierce lion, And the teeth of the young lions are broken out.
- Job 8:4If your sons sinned against Him, Then He turned them over to the power of their wrongdoing.
- Job 18:16His roots are dried below, And his branch withers above.
- Job 27:14Though his sons are many, they are destined for the sword; And his descendants will not be satisfied with bread.
- Exodus 20:5You shall not worship them nor serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, inflicting the punishment of the fathers on the children, on the third and the 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, For they do not seek Your statutes.
- Psalms 127:5Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them; They will not be ashamed When they speak with their enemies in the gate.
- Job 1:19and behold, a great wind came from across the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young people and they died, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”
- Luke 13:4Or do you think that those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them were worse offenders than all the other people who live in Jerusalem?
- Job 10:7According to Your knowledge I am indeed not guilty, Yet there is no one to save me from Your hand.
- Psalms 7:2Or he will tear my soul like a lion, Dragging me away, while there is 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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