Job 21:19 “It is said that God lays up one’s punishment for his children. Let God…”

Job 21:19

It is said that God lays up one’s punishment for his children. Let God repay the man himself, so he will know it.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.

World English Bible

You say, ‘God lays up his iniquity for his children.’ Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.

American Standard Version

Ye say, God layeth up his iniquity for his children. Let him recompense it unto himself, that he may know it:

Geneva Bible 1599

God wil lay vp the sorowe of the father for his children: when he rewardeth him, hee shall knowe it.

Darby Translation

God layeth up [the punishment of] his iniquity for his children; he rewardeth him, and he shall know [it]:

Young's Literal Translation

God layeth up for his sons his sorrow, He giveth recompense unto him — and he knoweth.

Bible in Basic English

You say, God keeps punishment stored up for his children. Let him send it on the man himself, so that he may have the punishment of it!

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Cross references

“layeth”

Deuteronomy 32:34 Romans 2:5 Job 22:24 Matthew 6:19 Matthew 6:20

Deuteronomy 32:34 · BSB

“Have I not stored up these things, sealed up within My vaults?

Romans 2:5 · BSB

But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.

Job 22:24 · BSB

and consign your gold to the dust and the gold of Ophir to the stones of the ravines,

Matthew 6:19 · BSB

Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.

Matthew 6:20 · BSB

But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.

“iniquity”

Isaiah 53:4–6 2 Corinthians 5:21 Genesis 4:7

Isaiah 53:4–6 · BSB

Surely He took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows; yet we considered Him stricken, struck down by God, and afflicted.

2 Corinthians 5:21 · BSB

God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.

Genesis 4:7 · BSB

If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you refuse to do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires you, but you must master it.”

“for his”

Exodus 20:5 Isaiah 14:21 Psalm 109:9–31 Ezekiel 18:14 Matthew 23:31–35 Ezekiel 18:19

Exodus 20:5 · BSB

You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

Isaiah 14:21 · BSB

Prepare a place to slaughter his sons for the iniquities of their forefathers. They will never rise up to possess a land or cover the earth with their cities.

Psalm 109:9–31 · BSB

May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.

Ezekiel 18:14 · BSB

Now suppose this son has a son who sees all the sins his father has committed, considers them, and does not do likewise:

Matthew 23:31–35 · BSB

So you testify against yourselves that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets.

Ezekiel 18:19 · BSB

Yet you may ask, ‘Why shouldn’t the son bear the iniquity of his father?’ Since the son has done what is just and right, carefully observing all My statutes, he will surely live.

“he rewardeth”

Psalm 54:5 2 Timothy 4:14 Revelation 18:6 Deuteronomy 32:41 2 Samuel 3:39 Matthew 16:27

Psalm 54:5 · BSB

He will reward my enemies with evil. In Your faithfulness, destroy them.

2 Timothy 4:14 · BSB

Alexander the coppersmith did great harm to me. The Lord will repay him according to his deeds.

Revelation 18:6 · BSB

Give back to her as she has done to others; pay her back double for what she has done; mix her a double portion in her own cup.

Deuteronomy 32:41 · BSB

when I sharpen My flashing sword, and My hand grasps it in judgment, I will take vengeance on My adversaries and repay those who hate Me.

2 Samuel 3:39 · BSB

And I am weak this day, though anointed as king, and these men, the sons of Zeruiah, are too fierce for me. May the LORD repay the evildoer according to his evil!”

Matthew 16:27 · BSB

For the Son of Man will come in His Father’s glory with His angels, and then He will repay each one according to what he has done.

“he shall”

Malachi 3:18

Malachi 3:18 · BSB

So you will again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.”

Also

Ezekiel 18:2 Jeremiah 31:29

Ezekiel 18:2 · BSB

“What do you people mean by quoting this proverb about the land of Israel: ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge’?

Jeremiah 31:29 · BSB

“In those days, it will no longer be said: ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge.’

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

18Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?

20Let his eyes see his own destruction; let him drink for himself the wrath of the Almighty.

Read Job 21