Job 5:4

children. sons.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

His children are far from safety - That is, this is soon manifest by their being cut off or subjected to calamity. The object of Eliphaz is, to s...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

His (e) children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the (f) gate, neither [is there] any to deliver [them]. (e) Though God sometimes allow...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 5:1-7 contains the application of the principles just laid down. Job 5:1-2 . If the angels are imperfect, it is no use for Job to appeal...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them . His children are far from safety - His...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

In the gate— In the tempest. See ch. Job 9:17 and Parkhurst on the word שׁער shangar, 9.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them. His children ... crushed in the gat...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The First Speech of Eliphaz (concluded) 1-5. Eliphaz warns Job that to show a resentful temper at God's dispensations is folly, and that fools nev...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Crushed in the gate ] the gate of the city, where justice was administered: cp. Psalms 127:5 . There are none to support their cause or to influenc...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

They are crushed. — Rather, perhaps, they crush one another. Their internal rivalries and dissensions bring them to ruin. They exemplify the hous...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

VII. THE THINGS ELIPHAZ HAD SEEN Job 4:1-21 ; Job 5:1-27 ELIPHAZ SPEAKS THE ideas of sin and suffering against which the poem of Job was wri...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Benefits of Chastisement Job 5:1-27 In this chapter Eliphaz closes his first speech. He had already suggested that Job's sufferings were th...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Proceeding, Eliphaz asked Job to whom he would appeal, to which of the holy ones, that is, as against the truth which he had declared, or in defense...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(1) В¶ Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn? (2) For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy sl...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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 hat...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither [is there] any to deliver [them]. Ver. 4. His children are far from sa...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

His children Whose greatness he designed in all his enterprises, supposing his family would be established for ever; are far from safety Are expo...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

FURTHER OBSERVATIONS BY ELIPHAZ (vv.1-27) Eliphaz suggests to Job that he call out to creatures for help, even to holy ones - holy men or angels...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Address of Eliphaz. B. C. 1520. 1...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

His children; whose greatness and happiness he designed in all his enterprises, supposing that his family was and would be established for ever. A...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

THE FIRST SPEECH OF ELIPHAZ.—CONTINUED I. Application of the Vision ( Job 5:1 ). “Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 5:1 . To which of the saints wilt thou turn? Men in anguish look every way for help, but how can either angel or departed spirit of the just h...
The Biblical Illustrator

Call now, if there be any that will answer thee. Moral evil as viewed by an enlightened natural religionist How does Eliphaz appear to view sin...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Job 5:1-18 Eliphaz, having narrated his vision, and rehearsed the words which the spirit spoke in his ear, continues in his own...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Answering A Possible Objection On Job's Part
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

His children are far from safety, they were without help, when the curse of God descended upon him, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is the...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Exodus 20:5 ; Job 1:19 ; Job 10:7 ; Job 18:16-19 ; Job 27:14 ; Job 4:10 ; Job 4:11 ; Job 8:4 ; Luke 13:4 ; Luke 13:5 ; Psalms 109:9-15 ;...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Children — Whose greatness he designed in all his enterprizes, supposing his family would be established for ever. Safely — Are exposed to dangers...

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

Related Commentaries of Job 5:4

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Job 5:4