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Young's Literal Translation
Job 21:19
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God reserves a person’s punishment for his children.Let God repay the person himself, so that he may know it.
You say, 'God lays up his iniquity for his children.' Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.
God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.
You say, ‘God stores up their iniquity for their children.' Let him pay it out to them, that they may know it.
It is said, ‘God saves up a person's punishment for his children.' But God should punish the wicked themselves so they will know it.
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!
"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.
"You say, 'God saves up a person's wrongdoing for his sons.' Let God repay him so that he may know it.
You say, 'God lays up his iniquity for his children.' Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.
God wil lay vp the sorowe of the father for his children: when he rewardeth him, hee shall knowe it.
You say, ‘God stores away a man's wickedness for his sons.'Let God repay him so that he may know it.
It is said that God lays up one's punishment for his children. Let God repay the man himself, so that he may know it.
You say, "God will punish those sinners' children in place of those sinners." But I say, "Let him punish those sinners themselves until they really feel it.
God lays up for their children [the punishment for their] iniquity. He should lay it on [the wicked] themselves, so that they can feel it!
+God layeth up [the punishment of] his iniquity for his children; he rewardeth him, and he shall know [it]:
But you say, ‘God is saving their punishment for their children.' No! Let God punish the evil people themselves so that they will know what they have done!
God reserves mans iniquity for his children; he pays it back to him, and he shall know it.
You claim God punishes a child for the sins of his father. No! Let God punish the sinners themselves; let him show that he does it because of their sins.
‘God stores up his iniquity for his children'? Then let him repay it to him that he may know.
God stores up his iniquity for his sons; He repays him, and he knows.
And though God saue their childre from soch sorowe, yet wil he so rewarde theselues, that they shal knowe it.
Ye say, God layeth up his iniquity for his children. Let him recompense it unto himself, that he may know it:
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!
'God layeth up his iniquity for his children!'--let Him recompense it unto himself, that he may know it.
God layeth vp his iniquitie for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.
God wyll lay vp the sorowe of the father for his children: & when he rewardeth him, he shall know it.
Let his substance fail to supply his children: God shall recompense him, and he shall know it.
Ye say, God layeth up his iniquity for his children. Let him recompense it unto himself, that he may know it.
God schal kepe the sorewe of the fadir to hise sones; and whanne he hath yoldun, thanne he schal wite.
[You say], God lays up his iniquity for his sons. Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it:
God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know [it].
They say, 'God lays up one's [fn] iniquity for his children';Let Him recompense him, that he may know it.
"‘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.
You say, ‘God stores up a man's punishment for his sons.' Let God punish him so that he may know it.
You say, ‘God stores up their iniquity for their children.' Let it be paid back to them, so that they may know it.
Shall, GOD, reserve, for his children, his sorrow? Let him recompense him so that he may know it;
God shall lay up the sorrow of the father for his children: and when he shall repay, then shall he know.
You say, 'God stores up their iniquity for their sons.' Let him recompense it to themselves, that they may know it.
"You say, 'God stores away a man's iniquity for his sons.' Let God repay him so that he may know it.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
layeth: Job 22:24, Deuteronomy 32:34, Matthew 6:19, Matthew 6:20, Romans 2:5
iniquity: that is, the punishment of his iniquity, Genesis 4:7, Isaiah 53:4-6, 2 Corinthians 5:21
for his: Exodus 20:5, Psalms 109:9-31, Isaiah 14:21, Ezekiel 18:14, Ezekiel 18:19, Ezekiel 18:20, Matthew 23:31-35
he rewardeth: Deuteronomy 32:41, 2 Samuel 3:39, Psalms 54:5, Matthew 16:27, 2 Timothy 4:14, Revelation 18:6
he shall: Malachi 3:18
Reciprocal: 2 Kings 10:6 - your master's sons Job 14:17 - sealed up Job 21:31 - repay Isaiah 9:9 - And all Hosea 13:12 - General
Cross-References
And Abraham [is] a son of a hundred years in Isaac his son being born to him,
and Sarah saith, `God hath made laughter for me; every one who is hearing laugheth for me.'
And she goeth and sitteth by herself over-against, afar off, about a bow-shot, for she said, `Let me not look on the death of the lad;' and she sitteth over-against, and lifteth up her voice, and weepeth.
And God heareth the voice of the youth; and the messenger of God calleth unto Hagar from the heavens, and saith to her, `What to thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath hearkened unto the voice of the youth where he [is];
and God is with the youth, and he groweth, and dwelleth in the wilderness, and is an archer;
therefore hath he called that place `Beer-Sheba,' for there have both of them sworn.
And Jehovah uncovereth the eyes of Balaam, and he seeeth the messenger of Jehovah standing in the way, and his drawn sword in his hand, and he boweth and doth obeisance, to his face;
Gill's Notes on the Bible
God layeth up his iniquity for his children,.... This is a prevention of an objection which Job foresaw his friends would make, and therefore takes it up and answers to it; you will say, that, be it so, that the wicked are for the most part prosperous, and their prosperity continues; God does not punish them now for their sins in their own persons, yet he will punish them in their children, for whom he reserves the punishment of their iniquity: this way go many of the Jewish commentators y, in which they are followed by many Christian interpreters z; and, as it seems, very rightly; now this Job grants, that so it is, God takes notice of the iniquities of men, and lays them up in his mind, and puts them down in the book of his remembrance; he reserves the punishment of their iniquities for their children, iniquity being often put for the punishment of it; this is laid up among his stores of vengeance, and is treasured up against the day of wrath; and when they have filled up the measure of their father's sins by their own transgressions, the deserved punishment shall be inflicted, according to Exodus 20:5; but this will not clear the case, nor support the notions and sentiments of Job's friends, who had all along given out, that wicked men are punished themselves as well as their children; and that, if they are at any time in prosperous circumstances, it is only for a little while; and therefore agreeably to such notions God should take other methods with them, not punish their children only, but themselves, as Job argues in answer to the objection in Job 21:18:
he rewarded him, and he shall know [it]; or "he should reward him, and he should know it" a; and so the word "should" is to be put instead of "shall" in Job 21:20, which directs to the true sense of these clauses: and the meaning of Job is, that according to the sentiments of his friends, God should reward a wicked man while he lives in his own body, and not in his posterity only; he should render to them a just recompence of reward of their evil works, the demerit of their sins; and in such a manner, that they should know it, be sensible of it, and feel it themselves, and perceive the evil of sin in the punishment of it; see Hosea 9:7.
y Nachmanides, Jarchi, Ben Gersom, Bar Tzemach. z Beza, Cocceius, Schultens. a ×ש×× ×××× ××××¢ "redderet illi, et (hoc) sciret", Beza; "retribueret ipsi potius, et sentiret", Cocceius.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
God layeth up his iniquity for his children - Margin, that is, âthe punishment of iniquity.â This is a reference evidently to the opinion which âtheyâ had maintained. It may be rendered, âYou say that God layeth up iniquity,â etc. They had affirmed that not only did God, as a great law, punish the wicked in this life, but that the consequences of their sins passed over to their posterity; or, if âtheyâ were not punished, yet the calamity would certainly come on their descendants; see Job 18:19-20; Job 20:10, Job 20:28. This is the objection which Job now adverts to. The statement of the objection, it seems to me, continues to Job 21:22, where Job says, that no one can teach God knowledge, or prescribe to him what he should do, and then goes on to say, that the âfactâ was far different from what they maintained; that there was no such exact distribution of punishments; but that one died in full strength, and another in the bitterness of his soul, and both laid down in the dust, together. This view seems to me to give better sense than any other interpretation which I have seen proposed.
He rewardeth him, and he shall know it - That is, you maintain that God will certainly reward him in this life, and that his dealings with him shall so exactly express the divine view of his conduct, that he shall certainly know what God thinks of his character. This opinion they had maintained throughout the argument, and this Job as constantly called in question.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 21:19. God layeth up his iniquity for his children — This is according to the declaration of God, Exodus 20:5: "Visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me." This always supposes that the children, who are thus visited, have copied their parents' example; or that ill-gotten property is found in their hands, which has descended to them from their wicked fathers; and of this God, in his judgments, strips them. It is, however, very natural to suppose that children brought up without the fear of God will walk in the sight of their own eyes, and according to the imaginations of their own hearts.
He rewardeth him, and he shall know it. — He shall so visit his transgressions upon him, that he shall at last discern that it is God who hath done it. And thus they will find that there would have been profit in serving him, and safety in praying unto him. But this they have neglected, and now it is too late.
