Job 21:19
[Ye say], God lays up his iniquity for his sons. Let him recompense it to himself that he may know it.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.
In Context
18that they are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carries away?
20Let his own eyes see his destruction, and let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
Cross References
Genesis 4:7If thou do well, shall thou not be accepted? And if thou do not well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire shall be for thee, and thou shall rule over it.
Numbers 14:18LORD is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and that will by no means clear [the guilty], visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons, upon the third and upon the fourth gene
Deuteronomy 32:41if I whet my glittering sword, and my hand takes hold on judgment, I will render vengeance to my adversaries, and will recompense those who hate me.
Job 22:24Then thou shall lay up gold as dust, and [the gold of] Ophir as the stones of the brooks.
Psalms 109:9Let his sons be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
Isaiah 53:4Surely he has borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows. Yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.
Matthew Henry on Job 21:18-27
Certain Punishments of the Wicked; Divine Sovereignty. ( b. c. 1520.) 17 How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger. 18 They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away. 19 God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it. 20 His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty. 21 For what pleasure hath he in his house after him,… Read the whole commentary →