Job 5:4
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His children shall be far from safety, and shall be destroyed in the gate, and there shall be none to deliver them.

Joshua 20:4
And when he shall flee to one of these cities: he shall stand before the gate of the city, and shall speak to the ancients of that city, such things as prove him innocent: and so shall they receive him, and give him a place to dwell in.

Job 4:11
The tiger hath perished for want of prey, and the young lions are scattered abroad.

Job 20:10
His children shall be oppressed with want, and his hands shall render to him his sorrow.

Psalm 109:12
May there be none to help him: nor none to pity his fatherless offspring.

Psalm 119:155
Salvation is far from sinners; because they have not sought thy justifications.

Proverbs 24:7
Wisdom is too high for a fool; in the gate he shall not open his mouth.

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His children shall be far from safety, and shall be destroyed in the gate, and there shall be none to deliver them.

children.

Job 4:10,11 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the lioness, and the teeth of the whelps of lions, are broken: . . .

Job 8:4 Although thy children have sinned against him, and he hath left them in the hand of their iniquity:

Job 18:16-19 Let his roots be dried up beneath, and his harvest destroyed above. . . .

Job 27:14 If his sons be multiplied, they shall be for the sword, and his grandsons shall not be filled with bread.

Exodus 20:5 Thou shalt not adore them, nor serve them: I am the Lord thy God, mighty, jealous, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me:

Psalm 109:9-15 May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. . . .

Psalm 119:155 Salvation is far from sinners; because they have not sought thy justifications.

Psalm 127:5 Blessed is the man that hath filled the desire with them; he shall not be confounded when he shall speak to his enemies in the gate.

they are crushed.

Job 1:19 A violent wind came on a sudden from the side of the desert, and shook the four corners of the house, and it fell upon thy children, and they are dead: and I alone have escaped to tell thee.

Luke 13:4,5 Or those eighteen upon whom the tower fell in Siloe and slew them: think you that they also were debtors above all the men that dwelt in Jerusalem? . . .

neither.

Job 10:7 And shouldst know that I have done no wicked thing, whereas there is no man that can deliver out of thy hand?

Psalm 7:2 Lest at any time he seize upon my soul like a lion, while there is no one to redeem me, nor to save.

Context
Eliphaz Continues: God Blesses those who Seek Him
3I have seen a fool with a strong root, and I cursed his beauty immediately. 4His children shall be far from safety, and shall be destroyed in the gate, and there shall be none to deliver them.5Whose harvest the hungry shall eat, and the armed man shall take him by violence, and the thirsty shall drink up his riches.…
Lexicon
His sons
בָנָ֣יו (ḇā·nāw)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1121: A son

are far
יִרְחֲק֣וּ (yir·ḥă·qū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 7368: To be or become far or distant

from safety,
מִיֶּ֑שַׁע (mî·ye·ša‘)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3468: Deliverance, rescue, salvation, safety, welfare

crushed
וְיִֽדַּכְּא֥וּ (wə·yid·dak·kə·’ū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hitpael - Conjunctive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1792: To crumble, to bruise

in court
בַ֝שַּׁ֗עַר (ḇaš·ša·‘ar)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8179: An opening, door, gate

without
וְאֵ֣ין (wə·’ên)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb
Strong's Hebrew 369: A non-entity, a negative particle

a defender.
מַצִּֽיל׃ (maṣ·ṣîl)
Verb - Hifil - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5337: To strip, plunder, deliver oneself, be delivered, snatch away, deliver


Additional Translations
His sons are far from safety, crushed in court without a defender.His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.

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

Let their children be far from safety, and let them be crushed at the doors of vile men, and let there be no deliverer.

His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, and there is no deliverer:

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

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

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

Far are his sons from safety, And they are bruised in the gate, And there is no deliverer.
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