Job 5:4, 18:19 | JFB | STEP | 4. His children . . . crushed in the gate —A judicial formula. The gate was the place of judgment and of other public proceedings ( ). Such propylæa have been found in the Assyrian remains. Eliphaz obliquely alludes to the calamity which cut off Job's children.

Job 5:4

4. His children . . . crushed in the gate—A judicial formula. The gate was the place of judgment and of other public proceedings (Ps 127:5; Pr 22:22; Ge 23:10; De 21:19). Such propylæa have been found in the Assyrian remains. Eliphaz obliquely alludes to the calamity which cut off Job's children.

Job 18:19

19. nephew—(so Isa 14:22). But it is translated "grandson" (Ge 21:23); translate "kinsman."