Job 5:4
His children are far from safety, 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 who has his quiver full of them. They won't be disappointed when they speak with their enemies in the gate.
- Ps 119:155 : 155 Salvation is far from the wicked, For they don't seek your statutes.
- Amos 5:12 : 12 For I know how many your offenses, And how great are your sins-- You who afflict the just, Who take a bribe, And who turn aside the needy in the courts.
- Luke 13:4-5 : 4 Or those eighteen, on whom the tower in Siloam fell, and killed them; do you think that they were worse offenders than all the men who dwell in Jerusalem? 5 I tell you, no, but, unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way."
- Exod 20:5 : 5 you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,
- Job 1:19 : 19 and, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young men, and they are dead. I alone have escaped to tell you."
- Job 4:10-11 : 10 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, The teeth of the young lions, are broken. 11 The old lion perishes for lack of prey, The cubs of the lioness are scattered abroad.
- Job 8:4 : 4 If your children have sinned against him, He has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience;
- Job 10:7 : 7 Although you know that I am not wicked, There is no one who can deliver out of your hand.
- Job 18:16-19 : 16 His roots shall be dried up beneath, Above shall his branch be cut off. 17 His memory shall perish from the earth. 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 have neither son nor grandson among his people, Nor any remaining where he sojourned.
- Job 27:14 : 14 If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword. His offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
- Ps 7:2 : 2 Lest they tear apart my soul like a lion, Ripping 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 wandering beggars. Let them be sought from their ruins. 11 Let the creditor seize all that he has. Let strangers plunder the fruit of his labor. 12 Let there be none to extend kindness to him, Neither let there be any to have pity on his fatherless children. 13 Let his posterity be cut off. In the generation following let their name be blotted out. 14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered by Yahweh. Don't let the sin of his mother be blotted out. 15 Let them be before Yahweh continually, That he may cut off the memory of them from the earth;
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