Job 21:19

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Job 21:17–21 · Berean Standard Bible

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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Job 22:24

and consign your gold to the dust and the gold of Ophir to the stones of the ravines,

Deuteronomy 32:34

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

Matthew 6:19

Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.

Matthew 6:20

But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.

Romans 2:5

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.

Genesis 4:7

If 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.”

Isaiah 53:4

Surely He took on our infirmities and carried our sorrows; yet we considered Him stricken by God, struck down and afflicted.

Isaiah 53:5

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.

Isaiah 53:6

We all like sheep have gone astray, each one has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid upon Him the iniquity of us all.

2 Corinthians 5:21

God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.

Exodus 20:5

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,

Psalms 109:9

May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.

Psalms 109:10

May his children wander as beggars, seeking sustenance far from their ruined homes.

Psalms 109:11

May the creditor seize all he owns, and strangers plunder the fruits of his labor.

Psalms 109:12

May there be no one to extend kindness to him, and no one to favor his fatherless children.

Psalms 109:13

May his descendants be cut off; may their name be blotted out from the next generation.

Psalms 109:14

May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD, and the sin of his mother never be blotted out.

Psalms 109:15

May their sins always remain before the LORD, that He may cut off their memory from the earth.

Psalms 109:16

For he never thought to show kindness, but pursued the poor and needy and brokenhearted, even to their death.

Psalms 109:17

The cursing that he loved, may it fall on him; the blessing in which he refused to delight, may it be far from him.

Psalms 109:18

The cursing that he wore like a coat, may it soak into his body like water, and into his bones like oil.

Psalms 109:19

May it be like a robe wrapped about him, like a belt tied forever around him.

Psalms 109:20

May this be the LORD’s reward to my accusers, to those who speak evil against me.

Psalms 109:21

But You, O GOD, the Lord, deal kindly with me for the sake of Your name; deliver me by the goodness of Your loving devotion.

Psalms 109:22

For I am poor and needy; my heart is wounded within me.

Psalms 109:23

I am fading away like a lengthening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.

Psalms 109:24

My knees are weak from fasting, and my body grows lean and gaunt.

Psalms 109:25

I am an object of scorn to my accusers; when they see me, they shake their heads.

Psalms 109:26

Help me, O LORD my God; save me according to Your loving devotion.

Psalms 109:27

Let them know that this is Your hand, that You, O LORD, have done it.

Psalms 109:28

Though they curse, You will bless. When they rise up, they will be put to shame, but Your servant will rejoice.

Psalms 109:29

May my accusers be clothed with disgrace; may they wear their shame like a robe.

Psalms 109:30

With my mouth I will thank the LORD profusely; I will praise Him in the presence of many.

Psalms 109:31

For He stands at the right hand of the needy one, to save him from the condemners of his soul.

Isaiah 14:21

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.

Ezekiel 18:14

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

Ezekiel 18:19

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.

Ezekiel 18:20

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.

Matthew 23:31

So you testify against yourselves that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets.

Matthew 23:32

Fill up, then, the measure of the sin of your fathers.

Matthew 23:33

You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape the sentence of hell?

Matthew 23:34

Because of this, I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and others you will flog in your synagogues and persecute in town after town.

Matthew 23:35

And so upon you will come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

Deuteronomy 32:41

when 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 Samuel 3:39

And 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!”

Psalms 54:5

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

Matthew 16:27

For 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.

2 Timothy 4:14

Alexander the coppersmith did great harm to me. The Lord will repay him according to his deeds.

Revelation 18:6

Give 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.

Malachi 3:18

So you will again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.”