His children are far from safety. They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,
TSK
TSK · Proverbs 24:7
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge references in WEB.
if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,
How great are your works, Yahweh! Your thoughts are very deep.
The path of life leads upward for the wise, to keep him from going downward to Sheol.
Don't exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don't crush the needy in court;
Open your mouth for the mute, in the cause of all who are left desolate.
who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for the arbiter in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.
For I know how many your offenses, and how great are your sins-- you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn aside the needy in the courts.
Now the natural man doesn't receive the things of God's Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can't know them, because they are spiritually discerned.