Job 21:19
You say, ‘God lays up his iniquity for his children.’ Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.
World English Bible British
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 is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?
20Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
Cross References
Genesis 4:7If you do well, won’t it be lifted up? If you don’t do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it.”
Numbers 14:18‘The LORD is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.’
Deuteronomy 32:41if I sharpen my glittering sword, my hand grasps it in judgement; I will take vengeance on my adversaries, and will repay those who hate me.
Job 22:24Lay your treasure in the dust, the gold of Ophir amongst the stones of the brooks.
Psalms 109:9Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
Isaiah 53:4Surely he has borne our sickness and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck 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 →