Eliphaz notes that the children of the foolish are far from safety and that they are crushed in the gate with none to deliver, suggesting that the consequences of folly extend to the innocent children who must suffer for their parents' failures. The image of children crushed in the gate without defender reveals the cosmic injustice that can befall the innocent. Yet Eliphaz uses this image to assert that foolish parents generate suffering for their children, implying that Job's children may have suffered as a consequence of his hidden failings.

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