God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.
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Gill's Exposition
His eyes shall see his destruction,.... Or "should see his destruction" (b); calamities coming upon himself and upon his children; or otherwise it will not affect him: but when a man has a personal…
Barnes' Notes
God layeth up his iniquity for his children - Margin, that is, “the punishment of iniquity.” This is a reference evidently to the opinion which “they” had maintained. It may be rendered, “You say that…
Job had largely described the prosperity of wicked people; now, in these verses,
I. He opposes this to what his friends had maintained concerning their certain ruin in this life. "Tell me how often do…
A conceivable objection, and its answer by Job. The verses read,
19. God (say ye) layeth up his iniquity for his children.
Let him recompense it unto himself, that he may know it;
20. Let his own…
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