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Job 5

Job 5:4 KJV (With Strong’s)

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His children
ben (Hebrew #1121)
a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like 1, 251, etc.))
KJV usage: + afflicted, age, (Ahoh-) (Ammon-) (Hachmon-) (Lev-)ite, (anoint-)ed one, appointed to, (+) arrow, (Assyr-) (Babylon-) (Egypt-) (Grec-)ian, one born, bough, branch, breed, + (young) bullock, + (young) calf, X came up in, child, colt, X common, X corn, daughter, X of first, + firstborn, foal, + very fruitful, + postage, X in, + kid, + lamb, (+) man, meet, + mighty, + nephew, old, (+) people, + rebel, + robber, X servant born, X soldier, son, + spark, + steward, + stranger, X surely, them of, + tumultuous one, + valiant(-est), whelp, worthy, young (one), youth.
Pronounce: bane
Origin: from {SI 11129}1129{/SI}
are far
rachaq (Hebrew #7368)
to widen (in any direction), i.e. (intransitively) recede or (transitively) remove (literally or figuratively, of place or relation)
KJV usage: (a-, be, cast, drive, get, go, keep (self), put, remove, be too, (wander), withdraw) far (away, off), loose, X refrain, very, (be) a good way (off).
Pronounce: raw-khak'
Origin: a primitive root
from safety
yesha` (Hebrew #3468)
from 3467; liberty, deliverance, prosperity
KJV usage: safety, salvation, saving.
Pronounce: yeh'-shah
Origin: or yeshai {yay'-shah}
, and they are crushed
daka' (Hebrew #1792)
to crumble; transitively, to bruise (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: beat to pieces, break (in pieces), bruise, contrite, crush, destroy, humble, oppress, smite.
Pronounce: daw-kaw'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 1794)
in the gate
sha`ar (Hebrew #8179)
an opening, i.e. door or gate
KJV usage: city, door, gate, port (X -er).
Pronounce: shah'-ar
Origin: from 8176 in its original sense
, neither is there any to deliver
natsal (Hebrew #5337)
to snatch away, whether in a good or a bad sense
KJV usage: X at all, defend, deliver (self), escape, X without fail, part, pluck, preserve, recover, rescue, rid, save, spoil, strip, X surely, take (out).
Pronounce: naw-tsal'
Origin: a primitive root
them.

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Ministry on This Verse

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children.
Job 4:10‑11• 10The roar of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken;
 11The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the whelps of the lioness are scattered. (Job 4:10‑11)
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Job 8:4• 4If thy children have sinned against him, he hath also given them over into the hand of their transgression. (Job 8:4)
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Job 18:16‑19• 16His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off;
 17His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name on the pasture-grounds.
 18He is driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
 19He hath neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining in the places of his sojourn. (Job 18:16‑19)
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Job 27:14• 14If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword, and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread; (Job 27:14)
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Ex. 20:5• 5thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them; for I, Jehovah thy God, am a jealous *God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons to the third and to the fourth generation of them that hate me, (Ex. 20:5)
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Psa. 109:9‑15• 9Let his sons be fatherless, and his wife a widow;
 10Let his sons be vagabonds and beg, and let them seek their bread far from their desolate places;
 11Let the usurer cast the net over all that he hath, and let strangers despoil his labour;
 12Let there be none to extend kindness unto him, neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children;
 13Let his posterity be cut off; in the generation following let their name be blotted out:
 14Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with Jehovah, and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out;
 15Let them be before Jehovah continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth: (Psa. 109:9‑15)
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Psa. 119:155• 155Salvation is far from the wicked; for they seek not thy statutes. (Psa. 119:155)
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Psa. 127:5• 5Happy is the man that hath filled his quiver with them. They shall not be ashamed when they speak with enemies in the gate. (Psa. 127:5)
they are crushed.
Job 1:19• 19and behold, there came a great wind from over the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they died; and I only am escaped, alone, to tell thee. (Job 1:19)
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Luke 13:4‑5• 4Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them, think ye that *they* were debtors beyond all the men who dwell in Jerusalem?
 5No, I say to you, but if ye repent not, ye shall all perish in like manner. (Luke 13:4‑5)
neither.
Job 10:7• 7Since thou knowest that I am not wicked, and that there is none that delivereth out of thy hand? (Job 10:7)
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Psa. 7:2• 2Lest he tear my soul like a lion, crushing it while there is no deliverer. (Psa. 7:2)
• There is hardly an allusion as yet to Job’s family, and yet verses 4, 5 might be taken as applying to them—children crushed without deliverance, and harvests taken by the hungry robber. He is rather describing the result of his experience and observations, that eventually, even in this life, suffering is the portion of the sinner. (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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