Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Job 5:4

COM commentary-section · status:draft · license:PD

4. His children . . . crushed in the gate —A judicial formula. The gate was the place of judgment and of other public proceedings ( Psalms 127:5 ; Proverbs 22:22 ; Genesis 23:10 ; Deuteronomy 21:19 ). Such propylæa have been found in the Assyrian remains. Eliphaz obliquely alludes to the calamity which cut off Job's children. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-5" class="com-number"