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19 “‘Well,’ you say, ‘at least God will punish their children!’
    But I say he should punish the ones who sin,
    so that they understand his judgment.
20 Let them see their destruction with their own eyes.
    Let them drink deeply of the anger of the Almighty.
21 For they will not care what happens to their family
    after they are dead.

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19 You say, ‘(A)God stores away [a]a man’s wickedness for his sons.’
Let [b]God repay him so that he may know it.
20 Let his (B)own eyes see his decay,
And let him (C)drink of the wrath of [c]the Almighty.
21 For what desire does he have for his household [d]after him,
When the number of his months is cut off?

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Footnotes

  1. Job 21:19 Lit his
  2. Job 21:19 Lit Him
  3. Job 21:20 Heb Shaddai
  4. Job 21:21 After he dies