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, crushed in court without a defender.
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.
30 He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.
30 He will not escape the darkness; a flame will wither his shoots, and the breath of God's mouth will carry him away.
30 he will not depart from darkness; the flame will dry up his shoots, and by the breath of his mouth he will depart.
30 And then death - don't think they'll escape that! They'll end up shriveled weeds, brought down by a puff of God's breath.
30 He will not depart from darkness; The flame will dry out his branches, And by the breath of His mouth he will go away.
30 "They will not escape the darkness. The burning sun will wither their shoots, and the breath of God will destroy them.
(Read Job 15:17-35)
Eliphaz maintains that the wicked are certainly miserable: whence he would infer, that the miserable are certainly wicked, and therefore Job was so. But because many of God's people have prospered in this world, it does not therefore follow that those who are crossed and made poor, as Job, are not God's people. Eliphaz shows also that wicked people, particularly oppressors, are subject to continual terror, live very uncomfortably, and perish very miserably. Will the prosperity of presumptuous sinners end miserably as here described? Then let the mischiefs which befal others, be our warnings. Though no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous, nevertheless, afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruits of righteousness to them that are exercised thereby. No calamity, no trouble, however heavy, however severe, can rob a follower of the Lord of his favour. What shall separate him from the love of Christ?
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.