Job 21:19 Cross References - ISV

¹⁹ God stores up their iniquity to repay their children; making them repay so that they may be aware.

⁷ If you do what is appropriate, you’ll be accepted, won’t you? But if you don’t do what is appropriate, sin is crouching near your doorway, turning toward you. Now as for you, will you take dominion over it?”

⁵ You are not to bow down to them in worship or serve them, because I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the iniquity of the parents to the third and fourth generations of those who hate me,

³⁴ The LORD’s Response“Is this not kept in reserve, sealed up with me in my treasury?

⁴¹ I’ll whet my shining sword, with my hands in firm grasp of judgment. I’ll show vengeance on my adversary and repay those who keep on hating me.

³⁹ Today, even though I’m anointed as king, I’m weak. These men, sons of Zeruiah, are too difficult for me. May the LORD repay the one who acts wickedly in accordance with his wickedness!”

²⁴ Bury your gold nuggets in the dust, and your source of gold among the stones in a streambed,

⁵ He will turn the evil upon those who lie in wait for me. Cut them off with your truth.

⁹ May his children become fatherless, and his wife a widow. ¹⁰ May his children roam around begging, seeking food while driven far from their ruined homes. ¹¹ May creditors seize all his possessions, and may foreigners loot the property he has acquired. ¹² May no one extend gracious love to him, or show favor to his fatherless children. ¹³ May his descendants be eliminated, and their memory be erased from the next generation. ¹⁴ May his ancestors’ guilt be remembered in the LORD’s presence, and may his mother’s guilt not be erased. ¹⁵ May what they have done be continually in the LORD’s presence; and may their memory be excised from the earth. ¹⁶ For he didn’t think to extend gracious love; he harassed to death the poor, the needy, and the broken hearted. ¹⁷ He loved to curse—may his curses return upon him! He took no delight in blessing others— so may blessings be far from him. ¹⁸ He wore curses like a garment— may they enter his inner being like water and his bones like oil. ¹⁹ May those curses wrap around him like a garment, or like a belt that one always wears. ²⁰ May this be the way the LORD repays my accuser, those who speak evil against me. ²¹ Now you, LORD my God, defend me for your name’s sake; because your gracious love is good, deliver me! ²² Indeed, I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me. ²³ I am fading away like a shadow late in the day; I am shaken off like a locust. ²⁴ My knees give way from fasting, and my skin is lean, deprived of oil. ²⁵ I have become an object of derision to them— they shake their heads whenever they see me. ²⁶ Help me, LORD my God! Deliver me in accord with your gracious love! ²⁷ Then they will realize that your hand is in this— that you, LORD, have accomplished it. ²⁸ They will curse, but you will bless. When they attack, they will be humiliated, while your servant rejoices. ²⁹ May my accusers be clothed with shame and wrapped in their humiliation as with a robe. ³⁰ I will give many thanks to the LORD with my mouth, praising him publicly, ³¹ for he stands at the right hand of the needy one, to deliver him from his accusers.

²¹ Prepare a massacre for his sons because of the guilt of their forefathers! They are not to rise and inherit the earth, and cover the surface of the world with cities.”

⁴ “Surely he has borne our sufferings and carried our sorrows; yet we considered him stricken, and struck down by God, and afflicted. ⁵ But he was wounded for our transgressions, and he was crushed for our iniquities, and the punishment that made us whole was upon him, and by his bruises we are healed. ⁶ All we like sheep have gone astray, we have turned, each of us, to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

²⁹ “In those days people will no longer say, ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, but the children’s teeth have been set on edge.’

² “Why do you cite this proverb when you talk about Israel’s land: ‘The fathers eat sour grapes but it’s their children’s teeth that have become numb.’

¹⁴ Personal Accountability for Sin“Now suppose that he produced a son who practiced all of his father’s sins, but then that son began to fear me and stopped doing all of these things.

¹⁹ The Person who Sins will Die“Yet you keep asking, ‘Why wouldn’t the son bear the punishment of his father’s sin?’ Because the son has done what was lawful and right, and has kept all my statutes and obeyed them, he’s certainly going to live. ²⁰ The soul who sins dies. The son won’t bear the punishment of his father’s sin and the father won’t bear the punishment of his son’s sin. The righteous deeds of that righteous person will be attributed to him, while the wicked deeds of the wicked person will be charged against him.

¹⁸ When you return, you will see the difference between the righteous and the wicked, and between the one who serves God and the one who does not.”

¹⁹ Teaching about Treasures
“Stop storing up treasures for yourselves on earth, where moths and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal. ²⁰ But keep on storing up treasures for yourselves in heaven, where moths and rust do not destroy and where thieves do not break in and steal,

²⁷ The Son of Man is going to come with his angels in his Father’s glory, and then he will repay everyone according to what he has done.

³¹ Therefore, you testify against yourselves that you are descendants of those who murdered the prophets. ³² Then finish what your ancestors started! ³³ You snakes, you children of serpents! How can you escape being condemned to hell?
³⁴ “That is why I am sending you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will whip in your synagogues and persecute from town to town. ³⁵ As a result, you will be held accountable for all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of the righteous Abel to the blood of Berechiah’s son Zechariah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.

⁵ But because of your stubborn and unrepentant heart you are reserving wrath for yourself on the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.

²¹ God made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that God’s righteousness would be produced in us.

¹⁴ Alexander the metalworker did me a great deal of harm. The Lord will pay him back for what he did.

⁶ Do to her as she herself has done, and give her double for her deeds. Mix a double drink for her in the cup she mixed.