Job 21:19

Job's Seventh Speech: A Response To Zophar

¹⁸ How often are they like straw before the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries away? ¹⁹ “You say, ‘God stores away a man’s iniquity for his sons.’
Let God repay him so that he may know it.
²⁰ Let their own eyes see their destruction, and let them drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

Job

Exodus 20:5

Do not worship them or serve them. I, Jehovah your God, am a God demanding exclusive devotion. (I do not tolerate rivals.) I will not share your affection with any other god. I punish children for their parents' sins to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me.

Genesis 4:7

If you do what is right, will not your attitude improve? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door. It desires to have you, but you must master it.

Deuteronomy 32:34

Is this not laid up in store with me and sealed up among my treasures?

Deuteronomy 32:41

I sharpen my flashing sword, and my hand takes hold on justice! I will render vengeance on my adversaries. I will repay those who hate me.

2 Samuel 3:39

Today, even though I am the anointed king, these men, Zeruiah's sons, are too strong for me to control. May Jehovah repay these wicked men, as their evil deed deserves.

Job 22:24

If you treat gold like dust, and gold of Ophir like the stones of the torrent-bed,

Psalm 54:5

He will repay my enemies for their evil: consume (destroy) them in your truth.

Psalm 109:9-31

Let his children become fatherless and his wife a widow.

Isaiah 14:21

Prepare a slaughtering place! The sons of this king will die because of their ancestors' sins. None of them will ever rule the earth or cover it with cities.

Isaiah 53:4-6

He took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows. We considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted.

Jeremiah 31:29

When that time comes people will no longer say: 'The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and their children's teeth are set on edge.'

Ezekiel 18:2

What do you mean by using this proverb concerning the land of Israel: 'The fathers eat sour grapes, but the children's teeth are set on edge?'

Ezekiel 18:14

Now suppose this son has a son. The son sees all the sins that his father does. He is afraid, so he does not do such things.

Ezekiel 18:19-20

Yet you say: Why should the son not bear the punishment for the father's iniquity? When the son has practiced justice and righteousness and has observed all my statutes and done them, he shall surely live.

Malachi 3:18

Once again my people will see the difference between the righteous and the wicked, between the person who serves God and the one who does not.

Matthew 6:19-20

Do not accumulate large amounts of wealth on earth. This is where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal.

Matthew 16:27

The Son of man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels. He will then reward each man according to his deeds.

Matthew 23:31-35

You witness against yourselves that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets.

Romans 2:5

Thanks to your stubborn and unrepentant heart, you store up wrath for yourself, in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God.

2 Corinthians 5:21

He made the one who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf. That way we might become the righteousness of God in him.

2 Timothy 4:14

Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: God will render to him according to his works.

Revelation 18:6

Render to her even as she rendered to you. Pay back double to her, double according to her works: in the cup that she has filled, fill double for her!