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You say, `God lays up his iniquity for his children.` Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.
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Quoting the Opposition
Commentators agree that Job is not stating his own belief in the first half of the verse. Instead, he is quoting his friends' argument back at them: 'You say God punishes a man's children for his sins.' Job then uses this to pivot to his own point: for justice to be truly known, God should punish the wicked man himself, not just his descendants.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
God lays up his iniquity for his children - Margin, that is, “the punishment of iniquity.” This is a reference evidently to the opinion whic…
19th Century
Anglican
God layeth up his iniquity (i.e., the punishment of it) for his children, may be the hypothetic…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
God lays up his iniquity for his children This is a prevention of an objection which Job foresaw his friends would m…
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Job had described the prosperity of wicked people; in these verses he opposes this to what his friends had maintained about their certain ruin in t…
13th Century
Catholic
In the previous chapter, Zophar had already conceded, at least in part, to Job's opinion. He had affirmed that sins were punished after death, alth…
