Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 5:4

4. His Children are far from safety , and they are crushed in the gate ; neither is there any to deliver them .

Whose greatness and happiness he designed in all his enterprises, supposing that his family was and would be established for ever

i. e. Are exposed to great dangers and calamities in this life, and can neither preserve themselves nor the great inheritance which their Fathers got and left for them Thus to be far from peace, Lam. 3. 17. Is to be involved in desperate troubles.

i. e. In the place of judicature; To which they are brought for their offences, and where they will find severe judges and few or no friends; partly because being wickedly educated and trusting to their own greatness they were insolent and injurious to all their neighbours: and partly because those many persons whom their powerful fathers defrauded or oppressed to seek for justice and the recovery of their rights, which they easily obtain against such persons as plainly declared by their Actions that they neither feared God, nor reverenced man, & therefore were hated by all sorts of men.

They can find no advocates nor assistants who are either able or willing to help them: But like Ishmael, as their hand was formerly against every man, so now every mans hand is against them.

Marginal references: Psal 19. 155.