Job 21:19
God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.
Cross-references
Job 21:31 continues the same argument: no one repays the wicked—directly reinforcing the complaint about lack of personal retribution.
Job 14:17 uses 'sealed up' for personal sins—similar storage imagery but applied to individual guilt, not transferred punishment.
Deuteronomy 32:34 says God stores up punishment in His treasuries, directly paralleling the belief Job quotes about storing iniquity for children.
2 Timothy 4:14 affirms personal repayment from the Lord—contrasting the complaint that punishment falls on sons instead of the man himself.
Romans 2:5 says the impenitent store up wrath for themselves, closely matching the idea of God storing up iniquity for children.
Matthew 23:31-35 has Jesus saying the Pharisees will fill up the measure of their fathers' sins — a parallel to storing up punishment for sons.
Matthew 16:27 promises reward according to deeds — individual judgment, directly opposing the idea of intergenerational punishment.
Ezekiel 18:20 states clearly that the child will not share the parent's guilt — the opposite of Job's claim that God punishes sons.
Ezekiel 18:19 explicitly asks why the son should not share guilt, answering that the righteous son lives — contrasts Job's complaint.
Ezekiel 18:14 describes a son who does not follow his father's sins — directly contradicts Job's observation that sons suffer for fathers' sins.
Isaiah 14:21 commands slaughter for the sons of Babylon because of their fathers' sins — directly parallel to Job's complaint about God punishing sons.
Deuteronomy 32:41 declares God will repay adversaries directly — the personal retribution Job wishes for, contrasting with his observation of sons being punished.
Exodus 20:5 is the original law about visiting iniquity on children, which Job quotes here. Direct citation.
Hosea 13:12 says Ephraim's sin is stored up—parallel imagery of stored retribution, though focused on national sin rather than descendants.
2 Kings 10:6 shows Jehu executing Ahab's sons—a concrete example of God's judgment falling on descendants, exactly the pattern questioned.
Psalm 109:9-31 prays for punishment on enemies' children, echoing the very idea Job questions — that God stores up punishment for sons.
Psalm 54:5 prays for evil to recoil on the slanderer — personal retribution, contrasting with Job's observation that God punishes sons instead.
2 Samuel 3:39 has David asking God to repay the evildoer according to his evil — a prayer for personal retribution, contrasting with Job's complaint.
Revelation 18:6 depicts double retribution on Babylon—a parallel theme of divine repayment, though not specifically on descendants.