Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, and there is no deliverer:
New American Standard Bible
They are even
And there is no deliverer.
King James Version
His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
Holman Bible
They are crushed at the city gate,
with no one to rescue them.
International Standard Version
His children are far from deliverance; they'll be maltreated before they leave home, with no one to rescue them.
A Conservative Version
His sons are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,
American Standard Version
His children are far from safety, And they are crushed in the gate, Neither is there any to deliver them:
Amplified
“His children are far from safety [and included in their father’s ruin],
They are oppressed and crushed in the [court of justice in the city’s] gate,
And there is no
Bible in Basic English
Now his children have no safe place, and they are crushed before the judges, for no one takes up their cause.
Julia Smith Translation
His sons shall be far from salvation, and they shall be crushed in the gate, and none delivering.
King James 2000
His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
Lexham Expanded Bible
His children are far from deliverance, and they are crushed in the gate, and there is no deliverer--
Modern King James verseion
His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, nor is there any to deliver them.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
that his children were without prosperity or health; that they were slain in the door, and no man to deliver them;
NET Bible
His children are far from safety, and they are crushed at the place where judgment is rendered, nor is there anyone to deliver them.
New Heart English Bible
His children are far from safety. They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,
The Emphasized Bible
His children are far removed from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, and there is none to deliver:
Webster
His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
World English Bible
His children are far from safety. They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,
Youngs Literal Translation
Far are his sons from safety, And they are bruised in the gate, And there is no deliverer.
Themes
Courts of justice » Inferior » Held at the gates
Courts of justice » The judgment of » Allusions to
Interlinear
Daka'
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 5:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
Eliphaz's Response Continues
3 I myself saw the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation. 4 His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, and there is no deliverer: 5 Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh even out of the thorns; and the snare gapeth for his substance.
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 119:155
Salvation is far from the wicked; for they seek not thy statutes.
Psalm 127:5
Happy is the man that hath filled his quiver with them. They shall not be ashamed when they speak with enemies in the gate.
Exodus 20:5
thou 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,
Job 1:19
and 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 4:10-11
The roar of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken;
Job 8:4
If thy children have sinned against him, he hath also given them over into the hand of their transgression.
Job 10:7
Since thou knowest that I am not wicked, and that there is none that delivereth out of thy hand?
Job 18:16-19
His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off;
Job 27:14
If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword, and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread;
Psalm 7:2
Lest he tear my soul like a lion, crushing it while there is no deliverer.
Psalm 109:9-15
Let his sons be fatherless, and his wife a widow;
Amos 5:12
For I know how manifold are your transgressions and your sins mighty: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the right of the needy in the gate.
Luke 13:4-5
Or 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?