Bible verse
His sons are far from safety, crushed in court without a defender.
Job 5:4 · BSB
The verses around it, from Job 5.
1 “Call out if you please, but who will answer? To which of the holy ones will you turn?
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.
7 Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.
8 However, if I were you, I would appeal to God and lay my cause before Him—
KJV
His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither [is there] any to deliver [them].
ASV
His children are far from safety, And they are crushed in the gate, Neither is there any to deliver them:
ERV
His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
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