Job 21:19
You say, God keeps punishment stored up for his children. Let him send it on the man himself, so that he may have the punishment of it!
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.
In Context
18How frequently are they as dry stems before the wind, or as grass taken away by the storm-wind?
20Let his eyes see his trouble, and let him be full of the wrath of the Ruler of all!
Cross References
Genesis 4:7If you do well, will you not have honour? and if you do wrong, sin is waiting at the door, desiring to have you, but do not let it be your master.
Numbers 14:18The Lord is slow to wrath and great in mercy, overlooking wrongdoing and evil, and will not let wrongdoers go free; sending punishment on children for the sins of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation.
Deuteronomy 32:41If I make sharp my shining sword, and my hand is outstretched for judging, I will give punishment to those who are against me, and their right reward to my haters.
Job 22:24And put your gold in the dust, even your gold of Ophir among the rocks of the valleys;
Psalms 109:9Let his children have no father, and his wife be made a widow.
Isaiah 53:4But it was our pain he took, and our diseases were put on him: while to us he seemed as one diseased, on whom God's punishment had come.
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 →