Job 5:4, Psa 69:12 | 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.

Psalms 69:12

12. sit in the gate—public place (Pr 31:31).