Job 5:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.

Job 5:4 —

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Cross-References

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Psalms 127:5
Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.
Job 18:16-19
His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off. …
Psalms 119:155
Salvation is far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes.
Psalms 7:2
Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
Job 10:7
Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.

Topics

Depravity of Man Guilt Popular Sins Rebellion Sin Wicked (people)

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-5)

A very warm dispute being begun between Job and his friends, Eliphaz here makes a fair motion to put the matter to a reference. In all debates perhaps the sooner this is done the better if the contenders cannot end it between themselves. So well assured is Eliphaz of the goodness of his own cause that he moves Job himself to choose the arbitrators (Job 5:1): Call now, if there be any that will ans…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 4)

4. 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.