Job 21:19

"You say": Job anticipates an objection here, that his friends would claim that even in the case when. wicked man lives. long life, the judgment still comes upon his sons. Job argues back that the wicked person himself out to be judged for his own sins, because once he is dead, he could not care about any judgment upon his family (Job 21:21). We know that the children often suffer the side effects of their parent's foolishness, but Job is arguing against the idea that God directly punishes children for the sins of their parents (Ezekiel 18:20).