4 His children are far from safety, crushed in court without a defender.
4 His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
4 His children are far from safety; they are crushed in the gate, and there is no one to deliver them.
4 Their children out in the cold, abused and exploited, with no one to stick up for them.
4 His sons are far from safety, They are crushed in the gate, And there is no deliverer.
4 Their children are abandoned far from help; they are crushed in court with no one to defend them.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 5:4
Commentary on Job 5:1-5
(Read Job 5:1-5)
Eliphaz here calls upon Job to answer his arguments. Were any of the saints or servants of God visited with such Divine judgments as Job, or did they ever behave like him under their sufferings? The term, "saints," holy, or more strictly, consecrated ones, seems in all ages to have been applied to the people of God, through the Sacrifice slain in the covenant of their reconciliation. Eliphaz doubts not that the sin of sinners directly tends to their ruin. They kill themselves by some lust or other; therefore, no doubt, Job has done some foolish thing, by which he has brought himself into this condition. The allusion was plain to Job's former prosperity; but there was no evidence of Job's wickedness, and the application to him was unfair and severe.