Job 5:4
Douay-Rheims
His children shall be far from safety, and shall be destroyed in the gate, and there shall be none to deliver them.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown
His children . . . crushed in the gate--A judicial formula. The gate was the place of judgment and of other public proceedings (Psa 127:5; Pro 22:22; Gen 23:10; Deu 21:19). Such propylÃ&brvbra have been found in the Assyrian remains. Eliphaz obliquely alludes to the calamity which cut off Job's children.
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1871 · Job 5:4
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