Job 5:4

King James Version 1611 (Original)

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

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  • Ps 127:5 : 5 Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the 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 your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.
  • Luke 13:4-5 : 4 Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem? 5 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
  • Exod 20:5 : 5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and 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 stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.
  • Job 8:4 : 4 If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;
  • Job 10:7 : 7 Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine 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 neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.
  • 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 he 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 continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places. 11 Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour. 12 Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children. 13 Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out. 14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out. 15 Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.

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  • 5Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.

  • 3I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.

  • Ps 109:9-12
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    9Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

    10Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.

    11Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.

    12Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.

  • 14But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand.

  • 4If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;

  • 14If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

  • 5Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them.

  • 10His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.

  • 21If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:

  • 21His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.

  • Job 24:4-5
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    4They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.

    5Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.

  • 13They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.

  • Lam 4:4-5
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    4The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.

    5They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.

  • 9Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

  • 17The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.

  • Isa 3:4-5
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    4And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.

    5And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.

  • 55So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates.

  • 3We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

  • Job 30:12-13
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    12Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.

    13They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.

  • 9They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.

  • 4Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.

  • 15Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.

  • 23Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment.

  • 23Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways.

  • Job 21:8-9
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    8Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.

    9Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.

  • 12In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.

  • 20My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth of me, and they are not: there is none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.

  • 28They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.

  • 7The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.

  • 5He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.

  • 16Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

  • 2To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!

  • 41All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his neighbours.

  • 5Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.

  • 18He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

  • 21A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.

  • 20They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.

  • 12For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.

  • 14There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.

  • 14They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.

  • 30In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

  • 21Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.