Job 5:5

"His children are far from safety. They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,"

Key Reflection

In Job 5:5, the verse suggests that even when a wicked person's own offspring face perilous situations, such as being attacked at the city gates where they seek safety, no one can save them—highlighting the dire consequences and lack of divine or human protection for those who stray from righteousness.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Whose harvest the hungry eateth up -That is, they are not permitted to enjoy the avails of their own labor. The harvest field is subject to the depredations of others, who contrive to possess themselves of it, and to consume it. And taketh it even out of the thorns -Or, he seizes it to the very thorns. That is, the famished robber seizes the whole of the harvest. He takes it all away, even to the thistles, and chaff, and cockle, and whatever impure substances there may be growing with the grain. He does not wait to separate the grain from the other substances, but consumes it all. He spares nothing.

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