Job 21:7

New Catholic Bible

⁷“Why do the wicked continue to survive,
achieving old age and increasing in power?

Job 21:7 Job paints a picture of the scandalous success of the wicked: peace, riches, children, pleasures—nothing is lacking to this happiness that accompanies evildoers to their grave (see Jer 12:1-2).

Job 21:19

New Catholic Bible

¹⁹“According to you, God stores up punishment for a man’s children,
but the wicked should be the ones punished and requited for their evil.

Job 21:19 The ancient principle of collective retribution said that children are punished for their parents’ sins (Job 5:4; 20:10; Deut 5:9). Job no longer accepts this explanation. Job demands that each person be repaid according to his or her deeds.

New Catholic Bible (NCB)