Job 5:4
"His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them."

Commentary

Gill's Exposition

His children are far from safety,.... From outward safety, from evils and dangers, to which they are liable and exposed, not only from men, who hate them for their father's sake, who have been oppressors of them, or from God, who visits the iniquity of the

fathers upon the children; and from spiritual and eternal safety or "salvation", or from salvation in the world to come, as the Targum, they treading in their fathers steps, and imitating their actions: and they are crushed in the gate; or openly, publicly, as Aben Ezra and others; or in the courts of judicature whither they are brought by those their parents had oppressed, and where they are cast, and have no favour shown them; or literally by the falling of the gate upon them; and perhaps some reference is had to Job's children being crushed in the gate or door of the house, through which they endeavoured to get when it fell upon them and destroyed them; the Targum is,"and are crushed in the gates of hell, in the day of the great judgment:" neither is there any to deliver them; neither God nor man, they having no interest in either, or favour with, partly on account of their father's ill behaviour, and partly on account of their own; and sad is the case of men when it is such, see Psa 50:21 .

Source: Gill's Exposition (Public Domain)

Hebrew Word Studies (7 words)

H7368 רָחַק
Definition:

9;Lamentations 1:16, etc.;Imperfect3masculine singularיִרְחַקDeuteronomy 12:21+, etc.;Imperativefeminine singularרַחֲקִיIsaiah 54:14, masculine pluralרַחֲקוּEzekiel 11:15<PerfectרָֽחֲקוּRa Hi Sm Co To 9;Lamentations 1:16, etc.;Imperfect3masculine singularיִרְחַקDeuteronomy 12:21+, etc.;Imperativefeminine singularרַחֲקִיIsaiah 54:14, masculine pluralרַחֲקוּEzekiel 11:15<PerfectרָֽחֲקוּRa Hi Sm Co To

Possible Meanings:
  • distant (semantic_range)
  • far (semantic_range)
  • distance (semantic_range)
H1121 בֵּן
Definition:

25+;ֵ˜בּןֿEzekiel 18:10; constructבֵּןGenesis 49:22(twice in verse);בֶּןֿGenesis 5:32+;בֶּןEsther 2:5;Nehemiah 6:18, & with prefixGenesis 17:17;Numbers 8:25;1 Chronicles 27:23; 2Chronicles 25:5; 31:16 25+;ֵ˜בּןֿEzekiel 18:10; constructבֵּןGenesis 49:22(twice in verse);בֶּןֿGenesis 5:32+;בֶּןEsther 2:5;Nehemiah 6:18, & with prefixGenesis 17:17;Numbers 8:25;1 Chronicles 27:23; 2Chronicles 25:5; 31:16

Possible Meanings:
  • son (semantic_range)
  • son (semantic_range)
  • children (semantic_range)
  • youth (semantic_range)
  • young men (semantic_range)
H3468 יֶשַׁע
Definition:

5deliverance, rescue, salvation, alsosafety, welfare; —יֵ֫שַׁעPsalm 20:74t.;יֶ֫שַׁעJob 5:114t.; suffixיִשְׁעִי2 Samuel 22:311t., + 14 t. suffixes; —1safety, welfare, prosperity2 Samuel 23:5;Psalm 12:6 5deliverance, rescue, salvation, alsosafety, welfare; —יֵ֫שַׁעPsalm 20:74t.;יֶ֫שַׁעJob 5:114t.; suffixיִשְׁעִי2 Samuel 22:311t., + 14 t. suffixes; —1safety, welfare, prosperity2 Samuel 23:5;Psalm 12:6

H1792 דָּכָא
Definition:

15; —crushed, figurative =contrite ones.Pi`elPerfectדִּכָּאPsalm 143:3; 2masculine singularדִּכִּאתָPsalm 89:11;ImperfectוִידַכֵּאPsalm 72:4; 2masculine singularתְּדַכֵּאProverbs 22:22(juss);יְדַכְּאו 15; —crushed, figurative =contrite ones.Pi`elPerfectדִּכָּאPsalm 143:3; 2masculine singularדִּכִּאתָPsalm 89:11;ImperfectוִידַכֵּאPsalm 72:4; 2masculine singularתְּדַכֵּאProverbs 22:22(juss);יְדַכְּאו

Possible Meanings:
  • dust (semantic_range)
H8179 שַׁעַר
Definition:

24(feminineIsaiah 14:31in personification, AlbrZAW xvi (1896), 86)gate; —׳שׁabsoluteJudges 9:40+, constructGenesis 22:17+; withהlocative,שָׁ֑עְרָהIsaiah 28:6+; pluralשְׁעָרִים2 Samuel 18:24+, construc 24(feminineIsaiah 14:31in personification, AlbrZAW xvi (1896), 86)gate; —׳שׁabsoluteJudges 9:40+, constructGenesis 22:17+; withהlocative,שָׁ֑עְרָהIsaiah 28:6+; pluralשְׁעָרִים2 Samuel 18:24+, construc

Possible Meanings:
  • hair (semantic_range)
H0369 אַיִן
Definition:

23הַנּוֺתֵןרוֺזְנִים לְאָ֑יִןwho bringeth princesto nothing;כְּאַיִןas nothing, ib.Isaiah 40:17;Isaiah 41:11,12;Haggai 2:3;Psalm 39:6;almost(""כִּמְעַט)Psalm 73:2;מֵאַיִןof nothingIsaiah 41:24.2constr 23הַנּוֺתֵןרוֺזְנִים לְאָ֑יִןwho bringeth princesto nothing;כְּאַיִןas nothing, ib.Isaiah 40:17;Isaiah 41:11,12;Haggai 2:3;Psalm 39:6;almost(""כִּמְעַט)Psalm 73:2;מֵאַיִןof nothingIsaiah 41:24.2constr

Possible Meanings:
  • nought (semantic_range)
  • is not (semantic_range)
H5337 נָצַל
Definition:

- X at all, defend, deliver (self), escape, X without fail, part, pluck, preserve, recover, rescue, rid, save, spoil, strip, X surely, take (out).NAS Exhaustive ConcordanceWord Origina prim. rootDefin - X at all, defend, deliver (self), escape, X without fail, part, pluck, preserve, recover, rescue, rid, save, spoil, strip, X surely, take (out).NAS Exhaustive ConcordanceWord Origina prim. rootDefin

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