Job 21:19
Ye say, God layeth up his iniquity for his children. Let him recompense it unto himself, that he may know it.
Revised Version 1895
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 carrieth away?
20Let his own eyes see his destruction, and let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
Cross References
Genesis 4:7If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin coucheth at the door: and unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
Numbers 14:18The LORD is slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation.
Deuteronomy 32:41If I whet my glittering sword, And mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine adversaries, And will recompense them that hate me.
Job 22:24And lay thou thy treasure in the dust, and the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks;
Psalms 109:9Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
Isaiah 53:4Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, 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 →