Job 21:19
It is said that God lays up one’s punishment for his children. Let God repay the man himself, so he will know it.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.
In Context
18Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?
20Let his eyes see his own destruction; let him drink for himself the wrath of the Almighty.
Cross References
Genesis 4:7If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you refuse to do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires you, but you must master it.”
Numbers 14:18‘The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion, forgiving iniquity and transgression. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers upon their children to the third and fourth generation.’
Deuteronomy 32:41when I sharpen My flashing sword, and My hand grasps it in judgment, I will take vengeance on My adversaries and repay those who hate Me.
Job 22:24and consign your gold to the dust and the gold of Ophir to the stones of the ravines,
Psalms 109:9May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.
Isaiah 53:4Surely He took on our infirmities and carried our sorrows; yet we considered Him stricken by God, struck down 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 →