Job 5:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴ Their children are far from safety, they are crushed in the gate, and there is no one to deliver them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ His children are far from safety; [involved in their father's ruin] they are crushed in the [court of justice in the city's] gate, and there is no one to deliver them.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ His children are far from safety, And they are crushed in the gate, Neither is there any to deliver them:

Common English Bible

⁴ Their children are far from safety, crushed in the gate without a deliverer.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ His sons will be far from prosperity and will be crushed at the gate, and there will be none who can rescue them.

Job 5:4 Cross References

Psalm 127:5

Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them. He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.

Psalm 119:155

Salvation is far from the wicked, for they do not seek your statutes.

Amos 5:12

For I know how many are your transgressions and how great are your sins— you who afflict the righteous, who take a bribe and push aside the needy in the gate.

Psalm 7:2

or like a lion they will tear me apart; they will drag me away, with no one to rescue.

Job 27:14

If their children are multiplied, it is for the sword, and their offspring have not enough to eat.

Job 10:7

although you know that I am not guilty, and there is no one to deliver out of your hand?

Job 8:4

If your children sinned against him, he delivered them into the power of their transgression.

Job 1:19

and suddenly a great wind came across the desert, struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young people, and they are dead; I alone have escaped to tell you.”

Exodus 20:5

You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, punishing children for the iniquity of parents to the third and the fourth generation of those who reject me

Joshua 20:4

The slayer shall flee to one of these cities and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city and explain the case to the elders of that city; then the fugitive shall be taken into the city and given a place and shall remain with them.

Job 20:10

Their children will seek the favor of the poor, and their hands will give back their wealth.

Proverbs 24:7

Wisdom is too high for fools; in the gate they do not open their mouths.