Job 21:19
“But” [[say ye]] “God layeth up his iniquity for his children.” Let him requite the offender, and let him feel it!
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.
In Context
18How often are they as stubble before the wind, Or as chaff, which the whirlwind carrieth away?
20Let his own eyes see his destruction, And let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty!
Cross References
Job 22:24Cast to the dust thy gold, And the gold of Ophir to the stones of the brook:
Psalms 109:9May his children be fatherless, And his wife a widow!
Isaiah 53:4But he bore our diseases, And carried our pains, And we esteemed him stricken from above, Smitten of 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 →