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Job 21:19

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19It is said, ‘God stores up the punishment of the wicked for their children.’z

Let him repay the wicked, so that they themselves will experience it!a

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Cross references

  1. zEx 20:5; Jer 31:29; Eze 18:2; Jn 9:2
  2. aJer 25:14; 50:29; 51:6, 24, 56

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

You say, ‘God stores up their iniquity for their children.’

Let him pay it out to them, that they may know it.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

God reserves a person’s punishment for his children.

Let God repay the person himself, so that he may know it.

NLTNew Living Translation

“ ‘Well,’ you say, ‘at least God will punish their children!’

But I say he should punish the ones who sin,

so that they understand his judgment.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

‘God stores up his iniquity for his children’?

Then let him repay it to him that he may know.

KJV 1900King James Version

God layeth up his iniquity for his children:

He rewardeth him, and he shall know it.