Job 5:4

KJV1611 – Modern English

His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, and there is none to deliver them.

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  • Ps 127:5 : 5 Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them; they shall not be ashamed, but shall speak with their enemies in the gate.
  • Ps 119:155 : 155 Salvation is far from the wicked, for they do not seek Your statutes.
  • Amos 5:12 : 12 For I know your many 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 killed them, do you think they were worse sinners than all the others who lived in Jerusalem? 5 I tell you, No: but unless you repent, you shall all likewise perish.
  • Exod 20:5 : 5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate Me.
  • Job 1:19 : 19 and suddenly a great wind came from across the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young people, and they are dead; and I alone have escaped to tell you."
  • 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 perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the stout lion are scattered abroad.
  • Job 8:4 : 4 If your children have sinned against Him, and He has cast them away for their transgression;
  • Job 10:7 : 7 You know that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of Your hand.
  • Job 18:16-19 : 16 His roots shall be dried up below, and above his branch shall be cut off. 17 His memory 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 descendant among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.
  • Job 27:14 : 14 If his children multiply, 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 continually wanderers and beg; let them seek their bread also from their desolate places. 11 Let the extortioner seize all that he has, and let strangers plunder his labor. 12 Let there be none to extend kindness to him, nor let there be any to favor his fatherless children. 13 Let his posterity be cut off; in the following generation let their name be blotted out. 14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered by the LORD, and let not the sin of his mother be wiped out. 15 Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off their memory from the earth.

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