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 · 2000His children are far from safety, And they are crushed in the gate, Neither is there any to deliver them:
KJV
King James Version · 1611His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901His children are far from safety, And they are crushed in the gate, Neither is there any to deliver them:
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Now 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 · 1862Far are his sons from safety, And they are bruised in the gate, And there is no deliverer.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752His children shall be far from safety, and shall be destroyed in the gate, and there shall be none to deliver them.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, and there is no deliverer:
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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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