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Job 5:4 KJV (With Strong’s)

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

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Job 4:10‑11• ¹⁰The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the dark lion,{HR}And the teeth of the young lion are broken;
¹¹The strong lion perisheth for lack of prey,{HR}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,{HR}And he hath cast them into the hand of their transgression; (Job 8:4)

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Job 18:16‑19• ¹⁶Beneath, his roots shall be dried up,{HR}And above, his branch shall be cut off.
¹⁷His memorial shall perish from the earth,{HR}And he shall have no name on the plain.
¹⁸They shall drive him from light into darkness,{HR}And shall chase him from the world.
¹⁹No shoot nor sprout shall he have among his people,{HR}And no escaped one in his dwellings. (Job 18:16‑19)

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Job 27:14• ¹⁴If his children multiply, [it is] for the sword,{HR}And his offspring have not enough of 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 orphans and his wife a widow.
¹⁰And let his sons be vagabonds (wandering wanderers),{HR}And beg and seek [bread] out of their desolations.
¹¹Let an exactor ensnare all that he hath,{HR}And strangers plunder his labour.
¹²Let there be none extending mercy to him,{HR}Nor anyone gracious to his orphans.
¹³Let his posterity (latter end) be cut off;{HR}In a generation following let their name be blotted out.
¹⁴Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with (to) Jehovah,{HR}And his mother's sin not be blotted out.
¹⁵Let them be before Jehovah continually,{HR}And let him cut off from the earth their memory, (Psa. 109:9‑15)

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Psa. 119:155• ¹⁵⁵Far from wicked [men is] salvation,{HR}For thy statutes they seek not. (Psa. 119:155)

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Psa. 127:5• ⁵Blessed [is] the man{HR}Who hath filled his quiver with them:{HR}They shall not be ashamed{HR}When they speak with enemies in the gate. (Psa. 127:5)

they are crushed.

Job 1:19• ¹⁹and, lo, there came a great wind from beyond the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young people, and they are dead; 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)

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Job 10:7• ⁷Upon thy knowledge that I am not guilty,{HR}And that none can deliver out of thy hand? (Job 10:7)

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Psa. 7:2• ²Lest like a lion he tear my soul, tearing it in pieces,{HR}And there is none to deliver. (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:

W. Kelly Translation

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His sons are far from help,{HR}And are crushed in the gate without deliverance;