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19 ‘God stores up his iniquity for his children’?[a]
Then let him repay it to him that[b] he may know.
20 Let his eyes see his decay,
and let him drink from the wrath of Shaddai,
21 for what does he care for[c] his house after him,
when the number of his months is[d] cut off?

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Footnotes

  1. Job 21:19 Or “You say, ‘God stores up his iniquity for his children.’”
  2. Job 21:19 Hebrew “and”
  3. Job 21:21 Literally “his joy in”
  4. Job 21:21 Hebrew “are”

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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