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John Gill's Exposition on Job 5:4
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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His children are far from safety, etc.] From outward safety, from evils and dangers, to which they are liable and exposed, not only from men, who hate them for their father’s sake, who have been oppressors of them, or from God, who visits the iniquity of the fathers upon the children; and from spiritual and eternal safety or “salvation”, or from salvation in the world to come, as the Targum, they treading in their fathers steps, and imitating their actions: and they are crushed in the gate; or openly, publicly, as Aben Ezra and others; or in the courts of judicature whither they are brought by those their parents had oppressed, and where they are cast, and have no favour shown them; or literally by the falling of the gate upon them; and perhaps some reference is had to Job’s children being crushed in the gate or door of the house, through which they endeavoured to get when it fell upon them and destroyed them; the Targum is, “and are crushed in the gates of hell, in the day of the great judgment:” neither [is there] any to deliver [them]; neither God nor man, they having no interest in either, or favour with, partly on account of their father’s ill behaviour, and partly on account of their own; and sad is the case of men when it is such, (see <195021>Psalm 50:21).
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