Cross references

Job 21:19

It is said that God lays up one’s punishment for his children.

Let God repay the man himself, so he will know it.

Job 21:19 BSB

Job 21:19 has 22 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 2 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Exodus 20:5 (7 votes) and Ezekiel 18:19–20 (4 votes). 9 other verses point back to it. It links with 17 other books, from Genesis 4 to Revelation 18.

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Which verses does Job 21:19 point to?

The 20 strongest of 22, ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. You 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,

  2. Yet 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. The soul who sins is the one who will die. A son will not bear the iniquity of his father, and a father will not bear the iniquity of his son. The righteousness of the righteous man will fall upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked man will fall upon him.

  3. Prepare 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.

  4. Surely He took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows; yet we considered Him stricken, struck down by God, and afflicted. But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed. …

  5. “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.’

  6. “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’?

  7. “Have I not stored up these things, sealed up within My vaults?

  8. Psalm 54:52 votes

    He will reward my enemies with evil. In Your faithfulness, destroy them.

  9. May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow. May his children wander as beggars, seeking sustenance far from their ruined homes. …

  10. Now suppose this son has a son who sees all the sins his father has committed, considers them, and does not do likewise:

  11. Romans 2:52 votes

    But 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.

  12. Job 22:241 vote

Which verses point to Job 21:19?

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