Job 21:19

Job's Seventh Speech: A Response To Zophar

¹⁸ How often are they like straw before the wind, and like chaff swept away by a whirlwind? ¹⁹ 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! ²⁰ Let his own eyes see his destruction; let him drink of the anger of the Almighty.

Job

Exodus 20:5

You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I, the Lord, your God, am a jealous God, responding to the transgression of fathers by dealing with children to the third and fourth generations of those who reject me,

Genesis 4:7

Is it not true that if you do what is right, you will be fine? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at the door. It desires to dominate you, but you must subdue it."

Deuteronomy 32:34

"Is this not stored up with me?" says the Lord, "Is it not sealed up in my storehouses?

Deuteronomy 32:41

I will sharpen my lightning-like sword, and my hand will grasp hold of the weapon of judgment; I will execute vengeance on my foes, and repay those who hate me!

2 Samuel 3:39

Today I am weak, even though I am anointed as king. These men, the sons of Zeruiah, are too much for me to bear! May the Lord punish appropriately the one who has done this evil thing!"

Job 22:24

and throw your gold in the dust -- your gold of Ophir among the rocks in the ravines --

Psalm 54:5

May those who wait to ambush me be repaid for their evil! As a demonstration of your faithfulness, destroy them!

Psalm 109:9-31

May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow!

Isaiah 14:21

Prepare to execute his sons for the sins their ancestors have committed. They must not rise up and take possession of the earth, or fill the surface of the world with cities."

Isaiah 53:4-6

But he lifted up our illnesses, he carried our pain; even though we thought he was being punished, attacked by God, and afflicted for something he had done.

Jeremiah 31:29

"When that time comes, people will no longer say, 'The parents have eaten sour grapes, but the children's teeth have grown numb.'

Ezekiel 18:2

"What do you mean by quoting this proverb concerning the land of Israel, "'The fathers eat sour grapes And the children's teeth become numb?'

Ezekiel 18:14

"But suppose he in turn has a son who notices all the sins his father commits, considers them, and does not follow his father's example.

Ezekiel 18:19-20

"Yet you say, 'Why should the son not suffer for his father's iniquity?' When the son does what is just and right, and observes all my statutes and carries them out, he will surely live.

Malachi 3:18

Then once more you will see that I make a distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between the one who serves God and the one who does not.

Matthew 6:19-20

"Do not accumulate for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal.

Matthew 16:27

For the Son of Man will come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will reward each person according to what he has done.

Matthew 23:31-35

By saying this you testify against yourselves that you are descendants of those who murdered the prophets.

Romans 2:5

But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourselves in the day of wrath, when God's righteous judgment is revealed!

2 Corinthians 5:21

God made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that in him we would become the righteousness of God.

2 Timothy 4:14

Alexander the coppersmith did me a great deal of harm. The Lord will repay him in keeping with his deeds.

Revelation 18:6

Repay her the same way she repaid others; pay her back double corresponding to her deeds. In the cup she mixed, mix double the amount for her.