Job 5:4

King James 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 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.