Job 21:19

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Job 21:19

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BSB

Berean Standard Bible

It is said that God lays up one’s punishment for his children. Let God repay the man himself, so he will know it.

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KJV

King James Version

God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know [it].

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WEB

World English Bible

You say, ‘God lays up his iniquity for his children.’ Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.

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ASV

American Standard Version

[Ye say], God layeth up his iniquity for his children. Let him recompense it unto himself, that he may know it:

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Job 21

¹⁷ How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? Does disaster come upon them? Does God, in His anger, apportion destruction?

¹⁸ Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?

¹⁹ It is said that God lays up one’s punishment for his children. Let God repay the man himself, so he will know it.

²⁰ Let his eyes see his own destruction; let him drink for himself the wrath of the Almighty.

²¹ For what does he care about his household after him, when the number of his months has run out?

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