Job 5:4

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יִרְחֲק֣וּ בָנָ֣יו מִיֶּ֑שַׁע וְיִֽדַּכְּא֥וּ בַ֝שַּׁ֗עַר וְאֵ֣ין מַצִּֽיל׃

Transliteration

yirḥăqû bānāyw from-yešaʿ wə-yiddakkʾû in-the-šaʿar wə-ʾên maṣṣîl

Grammar Details

• *yirḥăqû*: imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural - they will be far
• *bānāyw*: noun, masculine plural with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his sons
• *yešaʿ*: noun, masculine singular - safety/salvation
• *wə*: conjunction - and
• *yiddakkʾû*: Hithpael imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural - they will be crushed
• *šaʿar*: noun, masculine singular with definite article - the gate
• *ʾên*: particle of negation - there is not
• *maṣṣîl*: Hiphil participle, masculine singular - deliverer

Word Meanings

• *yirḥăqû*: are far/will be far from
• *yešaʿ*: safety/salvation/deliverance
• *yiddakkʾû*: be crushed/oppressed
• *šaʿar*: gate/place of judgment
• *maṣṣîl*: deliverer/rescuer

Referenced Verses

• Ps 127:5 : 5 Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: They shall not be put to shame, When they speak with their enemies in the gate.
• Ps 119:155 : 155 Salvation is far from the wicked; For they seek not thy statutes.
• Amos 5:12 : 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].
• Luke 13:4-5 : 4 Or those eighteen, {G2532} {G3638} upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and killed them, think ye that they were offenders above all the men that dwell in Jerusalem? 5 I tell you, Nay: but, except {G3361} ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
• Exod 20:5 : 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 1:19 : 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.
• Job 4:10-11 : 10 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, And the teeth of the young lions, are broken. 11 The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, And the whelps of the lioness are scattered abroad.
• Job 8:4 : 4 If thy children have sinned against him, And he hath delivered them into the hand of their transgression;
• Job 10:7 : 7 Although thou knowest that I am not wicked, And there is none that can deliver out of thy hand?
• Job 18:16-19 : 16 His roots shall be dried up beneath, And above shall his branch be cut off. 17 His remembrance shall perish from the earth, And he shall have no name in the street. 18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world. 19 He shall have neither son nor son's son among his people, Nor any remaining where he sojourned.
• Job 27:14 : 14 If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword; And his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
• Ps 7:2 : 2 Lest they tear my soul like a lion, Rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
• Ps 109:9-9 : 9 Let his children be fatherless, And his wife a widow. 10 Let his children be vagabonds, and beg; And let them seek [their bread] out of their desolate places. 11 Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; And let strangers make spoil of his labor. 12 Let there be none to extend kindness unto him; Neither let there be any to have pity on his fatherless children. 13 Let his posterity be cut off; In the generation following let their name be blotted out. 14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with Jehovah; And let not the sin of his mother be blotted out. 15 Let them be before Jehovah continually, That he may cut off the memory of them from the earth;