Job 5:4-5 | MHM | STEP | v. 4 : Eliphaz points out that the children of wicked people are often not safe: “His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, and there is none to deliver them” . He suggests that Job’s children died because of this pattern, saying that the families of those who do wrong can suffer loss and tragedy, and sometimes there is no one to help them.

‏ Job 5:4-5

v. 4: Eliphaz points out that the children of wicked people are often not safe: “His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, and there is none to deliver them” . He suggests that Job’s children died because of this pattern, saying that the families of those who do wrong can suffer loss and tragedy, and sometimes there is no one to help them.

v. 5: Eliphaz observes that the wealth of wicked people is taken away: “Whose harvest the hungry eat up, and take it even out of the thorns, and the robber swallows up their wealth” . He says that people who gain riches in the wrong way will lose them, often to robbers or enemies. God’s curse can reach through any protection, and the wicked will lose what they have gathered.