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Job 5:4

Job 5:4
His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

His children are far from safety,.... From outward safety, from evils and dangers, to which they are liable and exposed, not only from men, who hate them for their father's sake, who have been…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

His 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…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Job 5:1-5

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…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Job 5:4-5

These verses describe the desolation that befell the home and family of the man who hardened himself against God. The speaker falls here into the present tenses because, though he is describing an…