Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

God will lay up his iniquity for his sons: he will requite to him and be shall know.

New American Standard Bible

“You say, ‘God stores away a man’s iniquity for his sons.’
Let God repay him so that he may know it.

King James Version

God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.

Holman Bible

God reserves a person’s punishment for his children.
Let God repay the person himself, so that he may know it.

International Standard Version

God stores up their iniquity to repay their children; making them repay so that they may be aware.

A Conservative Version

[Ye say], God lays up his iniquity for his sons. Let him recompense it to himself that he may know it.

American Standard Version

Ye say , God layeth up his iniquity for his children. Let him recompense it unto himself, that he may know it:

Amplified


“You say, ‘God stores away [the punishment of] man’s wickedness for his children.’
Let God repay him so that he may know and experience it.

Bible in Basic English

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!

Darby Translation

+God layeth up the punishment of his iniquity for his children; he rewardeth him, and he shall know it:

King James 2000

God lays up his iniquity for his children: he recompenses him, and he shall know it.

Lexham Expanded Bible

'God stores up his iniquity for his children'? [Then] let him repay [it] to him that he may know.

Modern King James verseion

God lays up his iniquity for his children. He repays him, and he knows.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And though God save their children from such sorrow, yet will he so reward themselves, that they shall know it.

NET Bible

You may say, 'God stores up a man's punishment for his children!' Instead let him repay the man himself so that he may know it!

New Heart English Bible

You say, 'God lays up his iniquity for his children.' Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.

The Emphasized Bible

Shall, GOD, reserve, for his children, his sorrow? Let him recompense him so that he may know it;

Webster

God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.

World English Bible

You say, 'God lays up his iniquity for his children.' Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.

Youngs Literal Translation

God layeth up for his sons his sorrow, He giveth recompense unto him -- and he knoweth.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
God
אלהּ אלוהּ 
'elowahh 
God, god
Usage: 57

layeth up
צפן 
Tsaphan 
Usage: 32

Context Readings

Job's Seventh Speech: A Response To Zophar

18 They shall be as straw before the wind, and as chaff the storm stole it away. 19 God will lay up his iniquity for his sons: he will requite to him and be shall know. 20 His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink from the wrath of the Almighty.



Cross References

Exodus 20:5

Thou shalt not worship to them, and thou shalt not serve them: for I am Jehovah thy God, a jealous God, striking the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons to the third and to the fourth, to them hating me;

Genesis 4:7

If thou shalt do well thou shalt be lifted up; and if thou shalt not do well, sin lies at the entrance; and to thee his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.

Deuteronomy 32:34

Is not this laid up with me, Sealed up in my treasuries?

Deuteronomy 32:41

If I sharpened the lightning of my sword, And my hand shall lay hold upon judgment, I will turn back vengeance to mine adversaries, And to those hating me I will requite,

2 Samuel 3:39

And I this day tender, and being anointed king; and these men sons of Zeruiah, hard for me. Jehovah will recompense to him doing evil according to his evil.

Job 22:24

Place thou gold upon the dust, and the precious ore of the torrents of Ophir.

Psalm 54:5

He will turn back the evil to those oppressing me; in thy truth cut them off.

Psalm 109:9-31

His sons shall be orphans, and his wife a widow.

Isaiah 14:21

Prepare slaughter for his sons, for the iniquity of their fathers; they shall not rise and possess the land, and fill the face of the habitable globe with cities.

Isaiah 53:4-6

Surely he lifted up our afflictions, and our griefs he carried them: and we reckoned him to be smitten, struck of God, and afflicted.

Jeremiah 31:29

In those days they shall no more say, The fathers ate sour grapes and the sons' teeth will be blunted.

Ezekiel 18:2

What to you making use of this parable upon the land of Israel, saying, The fathers will eat sour grapes and the sons' teeth will be blunted?

Ezekiel 18:14

And behold, he begat a son, and he will see all his father's sins which he did, and he will see and will not do like them;

Ezekiel 18:19-20

And ye said, Why bore not the son upon the iniquity of the father? and the son doing judgment and justice, watching all my laws, and he will do them; living, he shall live.

Malachi 3:18

And ye turned back and saw between the just to the unjust, and between him serving God and to him serving him not

Matthew 6:19-20

Treasure not up to you treasures upon earth, where moth and gnawing destroy, and thieves dig through and steal:

Matthew 16:27

For the Son of man is about to come in the glory of his Father with his messengers; and then he will give back to each according to his deed.

Matthew 23:31-35

Wherefore ye bear testimony to yourselves, that ye are the sons of those having slain the prophets.

Romans 2:5

And according to thy hardness and impenitent heart thou treasurest up to thyself anger in the day of anger and revelation of the just judgment of God;

2 Corinthians 5:21

For him not knowing sin, he made sin for us; that we might be the justice of God in him.

2 Timothy 4:14

Alexander the coppersmith showed me much evil: (may the Lord give back to him according to his works:)

Revelation 18:6

Give back to her as also she gave back to you, and double to her double things according to her works: in the cup in which she mixed, mix to her double.

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