Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
God lays up his iniquity for his children. He repays him, and he knows.
New American Standard Bible
Let
King James Version
God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.
Holman Bible
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:
Julia Smith Translation
God will lay up his iniquity for his sons: he will requite to him and be shall know.
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 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.
Themes
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Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 21:19
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Seventh Speech: A Response To Zophar
18 they are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm steals away. 19 God lays up his iniquity for his children. He repays him, and he knows. 20 His eyes shall see his ruin, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
Names
Cross References
Exodus 20:5
You shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them. For I Jehovah your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons to the third and fourth generation of those that hate me,
Genesis 4:7
If you do well, shall you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin crouches at the door; and its desire is for you, and you shall rule over it.
Deuteronomy 32:34
Is not this laid up in store with Me and sealed up among My treasures?
Deuteronomy 32:41
If I sharpen My glittering sword, and if My hand takes hold in judgment, I will give vengeance to My enemies and will reward those that hate Me.
2 Samuel 3:39
And I am weak this day, though anointed king. And these men, the sons of Zeruiah, are too hard for me. Jehovah shall reward the doer of evil according to his wickedness.
Job 22:24
Then you shall lay up gold like dust, and among the rock of the torrents of Ophir.
Psalm 54:5
He shall reward evil to my enemies; cut them off in Your truth.
Psalm 109:9-31
Let his sons be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
Isaiah 14:21
Prepare slaughter for his sons, because of the iniquity of their fathers, so that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.
Isaiah 53:4-6
Surely He has borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed Him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
Jeremiah 31:29
In those days they shall not say any more, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the sons are dull.
Ezekiel 18:2
What is it to you that you use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes and the teeth of the sons are dull?
Ezekiel 18:14
And, lo, if he fathers a son who sees all his father's sins which he has done, and fears, and does not do like him;
Ezekiel 18:19-20
Yet you say, Why? Does not the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son has done justice and right, has kept all My statutes, and has done them, he shall surely live.
Malachi 3:18
Then you shall again see the difference between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God, and him who does not serve Him.
Matthew 6:19-20
Do not lay up treasures on earth for yourselves, where moth and rust corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal.
Matthew 16:27
For the Son of Man shall come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and then He shall reward each one according to his works.
Matthew 23:31-35
Therefore you are witnesses to yourselves, that you are the sons of those who killed the prophets;
Romans 2:5
But according to your hardness and your impenitent heart, do you treasure up wrath for yourself in a day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,
2 Corinthians 5:21
For He has made Him who knew no sin, to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
2 Timothy 4:14
Alexander the coppersmith showed many evil things to me. The Lord will give back to him according to his works.
Revelation 18:6
Reward her as she has rewarded you, and double to her double, according to her works. In the cup which she mixed, mix double to her.