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 safety] This is one principal root of wicked men, viz. their children, which have their very name in Hebrew from building, because by them the house is built up, and way made to greatest honours by friendships and affinities of other great families. These are far from safety, that is, they are in a great deal of danger (Lavater); or, by their intemperance, they run into many diseases and disasters; by their evil practices they come under the lash of the law, and without repentance under the danger of damnation too; salvation is far from them, Psa 119:155 Isaiah 59:11 .
They are crushed in the gate] That is, they are cast in judgment, all goes against them, and sentence pronounced upon them, as it befell Haman's children, and David's enemies, Psalms 109:7 .
Neither is there any to deliver them] None to plead for them, or rescue them, Proverbs 31:8,9; none to extend mercy to them, nor any to favour those fatherless children, Psalms 109:12, and that because their fathers were pitiless, Job 5:13,14, Haman for instance.