Job 21:19

Job answers the saying that God stores up a man's guilt to punish his children, insisting instead that the sinner himself should be repaid so he knows it. Justice should fall on the guilty person, not merely his heirs.

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• Exod 20:5You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
• Ezek 18:19–20Yet you may ask, ‘Why shouldn’t the son bear the iniquity of his father?’ Since the son has done what is just and right, carefully observing all My statutes, he will surely live.
• Isa 53:4–6Surely He took on our infirmities and carried our sorrows; yet we considered Him stricken by God, struck down and afflicted.
• Jer 31:29“In those days, it will no longer be said: ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge.’
• Isa 14:21Prepare a place to slaughter his sons for the iniquities of their forefathers. They will never rise up to possess a land or cover the earth with their cities.
• Ezek 18:2“What do you people mean by quoting this proverb about the land of Israel: ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge’?
• Rev 18:6Give back to her as she has done to others; pay her back double for what she has done; mix her a double portion in her own cup.
• Ps 54:5He will reward my enemies with evil. In Your faithfulness, destroy them.
• Ps 109:9–31May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.
• 2 Tim 4:14Alexander the coppersmith did great harm to me. The Lord will repay him according to his deeds.
• Rom 2:5But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.
• 2 Cor 5:21God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.
• Matt 23:31–35So you testify against yourselves that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets.
• Deut 32:34“Have I not stored up these things, sealed up within My vaults?
• Ezek 18:14Now suppose this son has a son who sees all the sins his father has committed, considers them, and does not do likewise:
• Matt 16:27For the Son of Man will come in His Father’s glory with His angels, and then He will repay each one according to what he has done.
• Matt 6:19–20Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.
• Job 22:24and consign your gold to the dust and the gold of Ophir to the stones of the ravines,
• Deut 32:41when I sharpen My flashing sword, and My hand grasps it in judgment, I will take vengeance on My adversaries and repay those who hate Me.
• 2 Sam 3:39And I am weak this day, though anointed as king, and these men, the sons of Zeruiah, are too fierce for me. May the LORD repay the evildoer according to his evil!”
• Mal 3:18So you will again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.”
• Gen 4:7If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you refuse to do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires you, but you must master it.”

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