Children — Whose greatness he designed in all his enterprizes, supposing his family would be established for ever. Safely — Are exposed to dangers and calamities, and can neither preserve themselves, nor the inheritance which their fathers left them. There is no question but he glances here, at the death of Job's children.
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Job 5:4
4 His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.