Job 5:4
His children are far from safety, and they are crushed at the place where judgment is rendered, nor is there anyone to deliver them.
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- Ps 127:5 : 5 How blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! They will not be put to shame when they confront enemies at the city gate.
- Ps 119:155 : 155 The wicked have no chance for deliverance, for they do not seek your statutes.
- Amos 5:12 : 12 Certainly I am aware of your many rebellious acts and your numerous sins. You torment the innocent, you take bribes, and you deny justice to the needy at the city gate.
- Luke 13:4-5 : 4 Or those eighteen who were killed when the tower in Siloam fell on them, do you think they were worse offenders than all the others who live in Jerusalem? 5 No, I tell you! But unless you repent you will all perish as well!”
- Exod 20:5 : 5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I, the LORD, your God, am a jealous God, responding to the transgression of fathers by dealing with children to the third and fourth generations of those who reject me,
- Job 1:19 : 19 and suddenly a great wind swept across the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young people, and they died! And I– only I alone– escaped to tell you!”
- Job 4:10-11 : 10 There is the roaring of the lion and the growling of the young lion, but the teeth of the young lions are broken. 11 The mighty lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
- Job 8:4 : 4 If your children sinned against him, he gave them over to the penalty of their sin.
- Job 10:7 : 7 although you know that I am not guilty, and that there is no one who can deliver out of your hand?
- Job 18:16-19 : 16 Below his roots dry up, and his branches wither above. 17 His memory perishes from the earth, he has no name in the land. 18 He is driven from light into darkness and is banished from the world. 19 He has neither children nor descendants among his people, no survivor in those places he once stayed.
- Job 27:14 : 14 If his children increase– it is for the sword! His offspring never have enough to eat.
- Ps 7:2 : 2 Otherwise they will rip me to shreds like a lion; they will tear me to bits and no one will be able to rescue me.
- Ps 109:9-9 : 9 May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow! 10 May his children roam around begging, asking for handouts as they leave their ruined home! 11 May the creditor seize all he owns! May strangers loot his property! 12 May no one show him kindness! May no one have compassion on his fatherless children! 13 May his descendants be cut off! May the memory of them be wiped out by the time the next generation arrives! 14 May his ancestors’ sins be remembered by the LORD! May his mother’s sin not be forgotten! 15 May the LORD be constantly aware of them, and cut off the memory of his children from the earth!
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