Parallel Verses
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.
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 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!
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 How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away? 19 You say, 'God lays up his iniquity for his children.' Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it. 20 Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of Shaddai.
Names
Cross References
Exodus 20:5
you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,
Genesis 4:7
If you do well, will it not be lifted up? If you do not do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it."
Deuteronomy 32:34
"Isn't this laid up in store with me, sealed up among my treasures?
Deuteronomy 32:41
if I whet my glittering sword, My hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to my adversaries, and will recompense those who hate me.
2 Samuel 3:39
I am this day weak, though anointed king; and these men the sons of Zeruiah are too hard for me. May the LORD reward the evildoer according to his wickedness."
Job 22:24
Lay your treasure in the dust, the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks.
Psalm 54:5
He will repay the evil to my enemies. Destroy them in your truth.
Psalm 109:9-31
Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
Isaiah 14:21
Prepare for slaughter of his children because of the iniquity of their fathers, that they not rise up and possess the earth, and fill the surface of the world with cities.
Isaiah 53:4-6
Surely he has borne our sicknesses, and carried our pains; yet we considered him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.
Jeremiah 31:29
"In those days they shall say no more, 'The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.'
Ezekiel 18:2
"What do you mean, that you use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, 'The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge?'
Ezekiel 18:14
"Now, behold, if he fathers a son, who sees all his father's sins, which he has done, and fears, and does not such like;
Ezekiel 18:19-20
"Yet you say, 'Why doesn't the son bear the iniquity of the father?' When the son has done that which is lawful and right, and has kept all my statutes, and has done them, he shall surely live.
Malachi 3:18
Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn't serve him.
Matthew 6:19-20
"Do not lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;
Matthew 16:27
For the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will render to everyone according to his deeds.
Matthew 23:31-35
Therefore you testify to yourselves that you are children of those who killed the prophets.
Romans 2:5
But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are storing up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
2 Corinthians 5:21
For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
2 Timothy 4:14
Alexander, the coppersmith, did much evil to me. The Lord will repay him according to his works,
Revelation 18:6
Return to her just as she returned, and repay her double as she did, and according to her works. In the cup which she mixed, mix to her double.