Scripture · Old Testament
Job 5:4
Job 5:4 is verse 4 of Job chapter 5, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
His sons are far from safety, crushed in court without a defender.
King James Version
His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
World English Bible
His children are far from safety. They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,
Read in context
Job 5:2–6 · Berean Standard Bible
2 For resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.
3 I have seen a fool taking root, but suddenly his house was cursed.
4 His sons are far from safety, crushed in court without a defender.
5 The hungry consume his harvest, taking it even from the thorns, and the thirsty pant after his wealth.
6 For distress does not spring from the dust, and trouble does not sprout from the ground.
Read all of Job 5Hebrew words
Data created by STEPBible.org based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).
Study Job 5:4
Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Job 4:10The lion may roar, and the fierce lion may growl, yet the teeth of the young lions are broken.
Job 4:11The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
Job 8:4When your children sinned against Him, He gave them over to their rebellion.
Job 18:16The roots beneath him dry up, and the branches above him wither away.
Job 18:17The memory of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the land.
Job 18:18He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.
Job 18:19He has no offspring or posterity among his people, no survivor where he once lived.
Job 27:14Though his sons are many, they are destined for the sword; and his offspring will never have enough food.
Exodus 20:5You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
Psalms 109:9May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.
Psalms 109:10May his children wander as beggars, seeking sustenance far from their ruined homes.
Psalms 109:11May the creditor seize all he owns, and strangers plunder the fruits of his labor.
Psalms 109:12May there be no one to extend kindness to him, and no one to favor his fatherless children.
Psalms 109:13May his descendants be cut off; may their name be blotted out from the next generation.
Psalms 109:14May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD, and the sin of his mother never be blotted out.
Psalms 109:15May their sins always remain before the LORD, that He may cut off their memory from the earth.
Psalms 119:155Salvation is far from the wicked because they do not seek Your statutes.
Psalms 127:5Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. He will not be put to shame when he confronts the enemies at the gate.
Job 1:19when suddenly a mighty wind swept in from the desert and struck the four corners of the house. It collapsed on the young people and they are dead, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”
Luke 13:4Or those eighteen who were killed when the tower of Siloam collapsed on them: Do you think that they were more sinful than all the others living in Jerusalem?
Luke 13:5No, I tell you. But unless you repent, you too will all perish.”
Job 10:7though You know that I am not guilty, and there is no deliverance from Your hand?
Psalms 7:2or they will shred my soul like a lion and tear me to pieces with no one to rescue me.