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 gate - a judicial formula. The gate was the place of judgment and of other public proceedings (Job 31:21; Psalms 127:5; Proverbs 22:22; Genesis 23:10; Deuteronomy 21:19). Such propyloea have been found in the Assyrian remains. Eliphaz obliquely alludes to the calamity which cut off Job's children.