New King James Version
Job 5:4
4His sons are far from safety, They are crushed in the gate, And there is no deliverer.
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 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
2For wrath kills a foolish man, And envy slays a simple one. 3I have seen the foolish taking root, But suddenly I cursed his dwelling place. His sons are far from safety, They are crushed in the gate, And there is no deliverer. 5Because the hungry eat up his harvest, Taking it even from the thorns, And a snare snatches their substance. 6For affliction does not come from the dust, Nor does trouble spring from the ground;
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יִרְחֲק֣וּ בָנָ֣יו מִיֶּ֑שַׁע וְיִֽדַּכְּא֥וּ בַ֝שַּׁ֗עַר וְאֵ֣ין מַצִּֽיל׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 5:4
- Job 4:10The roaring of the lion, The voice of the fierce lion, And the teeth of the young lions are broken.
- Job 8:4If your sons have sinned against Him, He has cast them away for their transgression.
- Job 18:16His roots are dried out below, And his branch withers above.
- Job 27:14If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword; And his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
- Exodus 20:5you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
- Psalms 109:9Let 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 127:5Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them; They shall not be ashamed, But shall speak with their enemies in the gate.
- Job 1:19and suddenly 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 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 sinners than all other men who dwelt in Jerusalem?
- Job 10:7Although You know that I am not wicked, And there is no one who can deliver from Your hand?
- Psalms 7:2Lest they tear me like a lion, Rending me in pieces, while there is 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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