Job 21:19 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁹ You say, ‘God stores up their iniquity for their children.’ Let it be paid back to them, so that they may know it.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁹ God layeth up his iniquity for his children: He rewardeth him, and he shall know it.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁹ You say, God lays up [the punishment of the wicked man's] iniquity for his children. Let Him recompense it to the man himself, that he may know and feel it.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁹ Ye say, God layeth up his iniquity for his children. Let him recompense it unto himself, that he may know it:

Common English Bible

¹⁹ God stores up his punishment for his children. Let him destroy them so they know.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁹ God will preserve the grief of the father for his sons, and, when he repays, then he will understand.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁹ God shall lay up the sorrow of the father for his children: and when he shall repay, then shall he know.

Job 21:19 Cross References

Genesis 4:7

If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is lurking at the door; its desire is for you, but you must master it.”

2 Samuel 3:39

Today I am powerless, even though anointed king; these men, the sons of Zeruiah, are too violent for me. The Lord pay back the one who does wickedly in accordance with his wickedness!”

Job 22:24

if you treat gold like dust and gold of Ophir like the stones of the torrent bed,

Psalm 54:5

He will repay my enemies for their evil. In your faithfulness, put an end to them.

Exodus 20:5

You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, punishing children for the iniquity of parents to the third and the fourth generation of those who reject me

Isaiah 14:21

Prepare a place of slaughter for his sons because of the guilt of their father. Let them never rise to possess the earth or cover the face of the world with cities.

Jeremiah 31:29

In those days they shall no longer say: “The parents have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.”

Ezekiel 18:14

But if this son has a son who sees all the sins that his father has done, considers, and does not do likewise,

Ezekiel 18:2

What do you mean by repeating this proverb concerning the land of Israel, “The parents have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge”?

Malachi 3:18

Then once more you shall see the difference between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve him.

Numbers 14:18

‘The Lord is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the parents upon the children to the third and the fourth generation.’

Matthew 16:27

“For the Son of Man is to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay everyone for what has been done.

Romans 2:5

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

2 Corinthians 5:21

For our sake God made the one who knew no sin to be sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

Deuteronomy 32:34

Is not this laid up in store with me, sealed up in my treasuries,

Deuteronomy 32:41

when I whet my flashing sword and my hand takes hold on judgment, I will take vengeance on my adversaries and will repay those who hate me.

2 Timothy 4:14

Alexander the coppersmith did me great harm; the Lord will pay him back for his deeds.

Revelation 18:6

Render to her as she herself has rendered, and repay her double for her deeds; mix a double dose for her in the cup she mixed.