Adam Clarke's Bible Commentary Verse 4. His children are far from safety ] His posterity shall not continue in prosperity. Ill gotten, ill spent; whatever is got by wrong must have God's curse on it.
They are crushed in the gate ] The Targum says, They shall be bruised in the gate of hell, in the day of the great judgment. There is reference here to a custom which I have often had occasion to notice: viz., that in the Eastern countries the court-house, or tribunal of justice, was at the GATE of the city; here the magistrates attended, and hither the plaintiff and defendant came for justice.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 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 age to have been applied to the people of God, through the Sacrifice slai 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 foolis thing, by which he has brought himself into this condition. The allusion was plain to Job's former prosperity; but there was n evidence of Job's wickedness, and the application to him was unfair an severe.
Original Hebrew ירחקו7368 בניו1121 מישׁע3468 וידכאו1792 בשׁער8179 ואין369 מציל׃5337
