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General Information:
These verses continue the earlier use of parallelism, here emphasizing in different ways the idea that the children of foolish people are never safe. (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-parallelism)
His children are far from safety
"His" refers to the foolish person or the foolish people in Job 5:2. Alternate translation: "Their children are never safe"
are crushed
Here being crushed represents being oppressed, taken advantage of, at court. This idea may be put into active form. Alternate translation: "someone crushes them" (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor and rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-activepassive)
city gate
The city gate, functioning as a court, was the place where disputes were resolved and where judgments were given.
There is no one to rescue them
"There is no one to help the foolish people's children out of their hardship"