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Job 21:19

Western Saints

Gregory the Dialogist

Ver. 19. God shall lay up for his children the grief of their father. And when He repayeth, then he shall know it. 57. We know that it is written; Visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children unto the third and fourth generation. [Ex. 34, 7] And again it is written, What mean ye that ye make this a proverb among you concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge? …

Morals on the Book of Job, Book XV ↗

Thomas Aquinas

After this he speaks about his adversity as to his sons when he says, "God will save the pain of the father for the sons," because the punishment of the father extends to the sons as imitators of the evil of the father. Nor will this be deferred until after the death of the father, but this will happen while the father is alive and knows it, and so he says, "and when he (God) repays" namely, when God renders the punishment to the sons, "then he (the father) will know."

Commentary on Job ↗