Job 21:19

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.his iniquity: that is, the punishment of his iniquity

WEB

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

ASV

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

LSV

God lays up for his sons his sorrow, || He gives repayment to him—and he knows.

YLT

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

DBY

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

DRC

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

GNV

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

JPS

'God layeth up his iniquity for his children!' — let Him recompense it unto himself, that he may know it.

LXXE

Let his substance fail to supply his children: God shall recompense him, and he shall know it.

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WLC

אֱל֗וֹהַּ יִצְפֹּן־לְבָנָ֥יו אוֹנ֑וֹ יְשַׁלֵּ֖ם אֵלָ֣יו וְיֵדָֽע׃

LXX-Br

Ἐκλείποι υἱοὺς τὰ ὑπάρχοντα αὐτοῦ, ἀνταποδώσει πρὸς αὐτὸν καὶ γνώσεται.

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• 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,
• Ezekiel 18:19–20Yet 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. The soul who sins is the one who will…
• 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’?
• 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 53:4–6Surely He took on our infirmities and carried our sorrows; yet we considered Him stricken by God, struck down and afflicted. But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment…
• Psalms 109:9–31May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow. May his children wander as beggars, seeking sustenance far from their ruined homes. May the creditor seize all he owns, and strangers plunder the fruits of his…
• 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.
• 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:
• Deuteronomy 32:34“Have I not stored up these things, sealed up within My vaults?
• 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.
• Psalms 54:5He will reward my enemies with evil. In Your faithfulness, destroy them.
• Matthew 23:31–35So you testify against yourselves that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets. Fill up, then, the measure of the sin of your fathers. You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape the sentence of…
• Job 22:24and consign your gold to the dust and the gold of Ophir to the stones of the ravines,

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