Job 5:4

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Far are his sons from safety, And they are bruised in the gate, And there is no deliverer.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 127:5 : 5 O the happiness of the man Who hath filled his quiver with them, They are not ashamed, For they speak with enemies in the gate!
  • Ps 119:155 : 155 Far from the wicked `is' salvation, For Thy statutes they have not sought.
  • Amos 5:12 : 12 For I have known -- many `are' your transgressions, And mighty your sins, Adversaries of the righteous, taking ransoms, And the needy in the gate ye turned aside.
  • Luke 13:4-5 : 4 `Or those eighteen, on whom the tower in Siloam fell, and killed them; think ye that these became debtors beyond all men who are dwelling in Jerusalem? 5 No -- I say to you, but, if ye may not reform, all ye in like manner shall perish.'
  • Exod 20:5 : 5 Thou dost not bow thyself to them, nor serve them: for I, Jehovah thy God, `am' a zealous God, charging iniquity of fathers on sons, on the third `generation', and on the fourth, of those hating Me,
  • Job 1:19 : 19 And lo, a great wind hath come from over the wilderness, and striketh against the four corners of the house, and it falleth on the young men, and they are dead, and I am escaped -- only I alone -- to declare `it' to thee.'
  • Job 4:10-11 : 10 The roaring of a lion, And the voice of a fierce lion, And teeth of young lions have been broken. 11 An old lion is perishing without prey, And the whelps of the lioness do separate.
  • Job 8:4 : 4 If thy sons have sinned before Him, And He doth send them away, By the hand of their transgression,
  • Job 10:7 : 7 For Thou knowest that I am not wicked, And there is no deliverer from Thy hand.
  • Job 18:16-19 : 16 From beneath his roots are dried up, And from above cut off is his crop. 17 His memorial hath perished from the land, And he hath no name on the street. 18 They thrust him from light unto darkness, And from the habitable earth cast him out. 19 He hath no continuator, Nor successor among his people, And none is remaining in his dwellings.
  • Job 27:14 : 14 If his sons multiply -- for them `is' a sword. And his offspring `are' not satisfied `with' bread.
  • Ps 7:2 : 2 Lest he tear as a lion my soul, Rending, and there is no deliverer.
  • Ps 109:9-9 : 9 His sons are fatherless, and his wife a widow. 10 And wander continually do his sons, Yea, they have begged, And have sought out of their dry places. 11 An exactor layeth a snare for all that he hath, And strangers spoil his labour. 12 He hath none to extend kindness, Nor is there one showing favour to his orphans. 13 His posterity is for cutting off, In another generation is their name blotted out. 14 The iniquity of his fathers Is remembered unto Jehovah, And the sin of his mother is not blotted out. 15 They are before Jehovah continually, And He cutteth off from earth their memorial.

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