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Job 21:19
19God reserves a person’s punishment for his children. Let God repay the person himself, so that he may know it.
Job 21:19 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.
- New International Version (NIV)It is said, ‘God stores up the punishment of the wicked for their children.’ Let him repay the wicked, so that they themselves will experience it!
- English Standard Version (ESV)You say, 'God stores up their iniquity for their children.' Let him pay it out to them, that they may know it.
- New King James Version (NKJV)They say, ‘God lays up one’s iniquity for his children’; Let Him recompense him, that he may know it.
Context of Job 21:19
17How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? Does disaster come on them? Does he apportion destruction in his anger? 18Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff a storm sweeps away? God reserves a person’s punishment for his children. Let God repay the person himself, so that he may know it. 20Let his own eyes see his demise; let him drink from the Almighty’s wrath! 21For what does he care about his family once he is dead, when the number of his months has run out?
Read all of Job 21Job 21:19 word by word
אֱל֗וֹהַּ יִצְפֹּן־לְבָנָ֥יו אוֹנ֑וֹ יְשַׁלֵּ֖ם אֵלָ֣יו וְיֵדָֽע׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 21:19
- Job 22:24and consign your gold to the dust, the gold of Ophir to the stones in the wadis,
- Deuteronomy 32:34“Is it not stored up with me, sealed up in my vaults?
- Matthew 6:19“Don’t store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal.
- Romans 2:5Because of your hardened and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment is revealed.
- Genesis 4:7If you do what is right, won’t you be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is for you, but you must rule over it.”
- Isaiah 53:4Yet he himself bore our sicknesses, and he carried our pains; but we in turn regarded him stricken, struck down by God, and afflicted.
- 2 Corinthians 5:21He made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
- Exodus 20:5Do not bow in worship to them, and do not serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, bringing the consequences of the fathers’ iniquity on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate me,
- Psalms 109:9Let his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.
- Isaiah 14:21Prepare a place of slaughter for his sons, because of the iniquity of their ancestors. They will never rise up to possess a land or fill the surface of the earth with cities.
- Ezekiel 18:14“Now suppose he has a son who sees all the sins his father has committed, and though he sees them, he does not do likewise.
- Matthew 23:31So you testify against yourselves that you are descendants of those who murdered the prophets.
- Deuteronomy 32:41when I sharpen my flashing sword, and my hand takes hold of judgment, I will take vengeance on my adversaries and repay those who hate me.
- 2 Samuel 3:39As for me, even though I am the anointed king, I have little power today. These men, the sons of Zeruiah, are too fierce for me. May the Lord repay the evildoer according to his evil!”
- Psalms 54:5He will repay my adversaries for their evil. Because of your faithfulness, annihilate them.
- Matthew 16:27For the Son of Man is going to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will reward each according to what he has done.
Commentaries on Job 21:19
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 19God layeth up his iniquity for his children - This is according to the declaration of God, Exodus 20:5; : "Visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me." This always supposes that the children, who are thus visited, have copied their parents' example; or that ill-gotten property is found in their hands, which has descended to them from their wicked fathers; and of this God, in his…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 19God layeth up his iniquity for his children - Margin, that is, “the punishment of iniquity.” This is a reference evidently to the opinion which “they” had maintained. It may be rendered, “You say that God layeth up iniquity,” etc. They had affirmed that not only did God, as a great law, punish the wicked in this life, but that the consequences of their sins passed over to their posterity; or, if “they” were not punished, yet the calamity would certainly…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 17-26Verses 17-26 Job had described the prosperity of wicked people; in these verses he opposes this to what his friends had maintained about their certain ruin in this life. He reconciles this to the holiness and justice of God. Even while they prosper thus, they are light and worthless, of no account with God, or with wise men. In the height of their pomp and power, there is but a step between them and ruin. Job refers the difference Providence makes between…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 19It is said: Job was quoting and responding to his friends' arguments. God lays up one’s punishment for his children: Eliphaz and Zophar said this, but Job believed God should punish the people who sin (5:4; 20:10; see Ezekiel 18:19–20).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1919. Equally questionable is the friends' assertion that if the godless himself is not punished, the children are (Job 18:19; 20:10); and that God rewardeth him here for his iniquity, and that he shall know it to his cost. So "know" (Ho 9:7).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 21
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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