Job 5:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Now his children have no safe place, and they are crushed before the judges, for no one takes up their cause.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 127:5 : 5 Happy is the man who has a good store of them; he will not be put to shame, but his cause will be supported by them against his haters.
  • Ps 119:155 : 155 Salvation is far from evil-doers; for they have made no search for your rules.
  • Amos 5:12 : 12 For I have seen how your evil-doing is increased and how strong are your sins, you troublers of the upright, who take rewards and do wrong to the cause of the poor in the public place.
  • Luke 13:4-5 : 4 Or those eighteen men who were crushed by the fall of the tower of Siloam, were they worse than all the other men living in Jerusalem? 5 I say to you, It is not so: but if your hearts are not changed, you will all come to an end in the same way.
  • Exod 20:5 : 5 You may not go down on your faces before them or give them worship: for I, the Lord your God, am a God who will not give his honour to another; and I will send punishment on the children for the wrongdoing of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation of my haters;
  • Job 1:19 : 19 When a great wind came rushing from the waste land against the four sides of the house, and it came down on the young men, and they are dead; and I was the only one who got away safe to give you the news.
  • Job 4:10-11 : 10 Though the noise of the lion and the sounding of his voice, may be loud, the teeth of the young lions are broken. 11 The old lion comes to his end for need of food, and the young of the she-lion go wandering in all directions.
  • Job 8:4 : 4 If your children have done evil against him, then their punishment is from his hand.
  • Job 10:7 : 7 Though you see that I am not an evil-doer; and there is no one who is able to take a man out of your hands?
  • Job 18:16-19 : 16 Under the earth his roots are dry, and over it his branch is cut off. 17 His memory is gone from the earth, and in the open country there is no knowledge of his name. 18 He is sent away from the light into the dark; he is forced out of the world. 19 He has no offspring or family among his people, and in his living-place there is no one of his name.
  • Job 27:14 : 14 If his children are increased, it is for the sword; and his offspring have not enough bread.
  • Ps 7:2 : 2 So that he may not come rushing on my soul like a lion, wounding it, while there is no one to be my saviour.
  • Ps 109:9-9 : 9 Let his children have no father, and his wife be made a widow. 10 Let his children be wanderers, looking to others for their food; let them be sent away from the company of their friends. 11 Let his creditor take all his goods; and let others have the profit of his work. 12 Let no man have pity on him, or give help to his children when he is dead. 13 Let his seed be cut off; in the coming generation let their name go out of memory. 14 Let the Lord keep in mind the wrongdoing of his fathers; and may the sin of his mother have no forgiveness. 15 Let them be ever before the eyes of the Lord, so that the memory of them may be cut off from the earth.

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  • Ps 109:9-12
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    10 Let his children be wanderers, looking to others for their food; let them be sent away from the company of their friends.

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    14 As he came from his mother at birth, so does he go again; he gets from his work no reward which he may take away in his hand.

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    4 If your children have done evil against him, then their punishment is from his hand.

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    14 If his children are increased, it is for the sword; and his offspring have not enough bread.

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    72%

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    21 If my hand had been lifted up against him who had done no wrong, when I saw that I was supported by the judges;

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    21 His sons come to honour, and he has no knowledge of it; they are made low, but he is not conscious of it.

  • Job 24:4-5
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    13 The young men were crushing the grain, and the boys were falling under the wood.

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