Job 21:19
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“It is said that God lays up one’s punishment for his children. Let God repay the man himself, so he will know it.”
A short, plain-language explanation of Job 21:19 goes here — the kind of answer a reader (or an AI assistant) can quote in one breath. Original meaning coming soon.
“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 · Public Domain (CC0)“God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Ye say, God layeth up his iniquity for his children. Let him recompense it unto himself, that he may know it:”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“God layeth up for his sons his sorrow, He giveth recompense unto him--and he knoweth.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 21:19 — 23 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 4:7If 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.”
- Exodus 20:5You 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,
- Numbers 14:18‘The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion, forgiving iniquity and transgression. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers upon their children to the third and fourth generation.’
- Deuteronomy 32:34“Have I not stored up these things, sealed up within My vaults?
- Deuteronomy 32:41when 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 3:39And 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!”
- Job 22:24and consign your gold to the dust and the gold of Ophir to the stones of the ravines,
- Psalms 54:5He will reward my enemies with evil. In Your faithfulness, destroy them.
- Psalms 109:9May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.
- Isaiah 14:21Prepare 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.
- Isaiah 53:4Surely He took on our infirmities and carried our sorrows; yet we considered Him stricken by God, struck down and afflicted.
- Jeremiah 31:29“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.’
- Ezekiel 18:2“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’?
- Ezekiel 18:14Now suppose this son has a son who sees all the sins his father has committed, considers them, and does not do likewise:
- Ezekiel 18:19Yet 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.
- Malachi 3:18So you will again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.”
- Matthew 6:19Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.
- Matthew 16:27For 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.
- Matthew 23:31So you testify against yourselves that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets.
- Romans 2:5But 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.
- 2 Corinthians 5:21God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.
- 2 Timothy 4:14Alexander the coppersmith did great harm to me. The Lord will repay him according to his deeds.
- Revelation 18:6Give 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.
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