Job 5:4

What does Job 5:4 mean?

A plain-English look at Job 5:4 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

Now his children have no safe place, and they are crushed before the judges, for no one takes up their cause.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

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

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

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

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

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

Context

v.3I have seen the foolish taking root: But suddenly I cursed his habitation.

v.4This passage

v.5Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, And taketh it even out of the thorns; And the snare gapeth for their substance.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Job 4:10

    The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, And the teeth of the young lions, are broken.

  • Amos 5:12

    For I know how manifold are your transgressions, and how mighty are your sins—ye that afflict the just, that take a bribe, and that turn aside the needy in the gate from their right.

  • Job 1:19

    and, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

  • Psalms 119:155

    Salvation is far from the wicked; For they seek not thy statutes.

  • Exodus 20:5

    thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them; for I Jehovah thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation of them that hate me,

  • Job 27:14

    If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword; And his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

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