Job 21:19 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁹ You say, ‘God stores up their iniquity for their sons.’ Let him recompense it to themselves, 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 couching at the door; its desire is for you, but you must master it.”

2 Samuel 3:39

And I am this day weak, though anointed king; these men the sons of Zeruiah are too hard for me. The Lord requite the evildoer according to his wickedness!”

Job 22:24

if you lay gold in the dust, and gold of Ophir among the stones of the torrent bed,

Psalm 54:5

He will requite my enemies with evil; in thy 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, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me,

Isaiah 14:21

Prepare slaughter for his sons because of the guilt of their fathers, lest they rise and possess the earth, and fill the face of the world with cities.”

Jeremiah 31:29

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

Ezekiel 18:14

“But if this man begets a son who sees all the sins which his father has done, and fears, and does not do likewise,

Ezekiel 18:2

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

Malachi 3:18

Then once more you shall distinguish 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 he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of fathers upon children, upon the third and upon 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 every man for what he has 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 he made him to be sin who knew no 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

if I whet my glittering sword, and my hand takes hold on judgment, I will take vengeance on my adversaries, and will requite those who hate me.

2 Timothy 4:14

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

Revelation 18:6

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