Job 21:19

Job's Seventh Speech: A Response To Zophar

¹⁸ May they become like a straw, blown away before the wind; like a chaff that's swept off by a storm. ¹⁹ God stores up their iniquity to repay their children; making them repay so that they may be aware. ²⁰ Their own eyes will see their destruction; and they'll drink the wrath of the Almighty.

Job

Exodus 20:5

You are not to bow down to them in worship or serve them, because I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the guilt of parents on children, to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,

Genesis 4:7

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?"

Deuteronomy 32:34

"Is this not kept in reserve, sealed up with me in my treasury?

Deuteronomy 32:41

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.

2 Samuel 3:39

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!"

Job 22:24

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

Psalm 54:5

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

Psalm 109:9-31

May his children become fatherless, and his wife a widow.

Isaiah 14:21

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."

Isaiah 53:4-6

"Surely he has borne our sufferings and carried our sorrows; yet we considered him stricken, and struck down by God, and afflicted.

Jeremiah 31:29

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

Ezekiel 18:2

"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.'

Ezekiel 18:14

"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.

Ezekiel 18:19-20

"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.

Malachi 3:18

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."

Matthew 6:19-20

"Stop storing up treasures for yourselves on earth, where moths and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal.

Matthew 16:27

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.

Matthew 23:31-35

Therefore, you testify against yourselves that you are descendants of those who murdered the prophets.

Romans 2:5

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.

2 Corinthians 5:21

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

2 Timothy 4:14

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

Revelation 18:6

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.