Ezekiel 18:14
New International Version
“But suppose this son has a son who sees all the sins his father commits, and though he sees them, he does not do such things:

New Living Translation
“But suppose that sinful son, in turn, has a son who sees his father’s wickedness and decides against that kind of life.

English Standard Version
“Now suppose this man fathers a son who sees all the sins that his father has done; he sees, and does not do likewise:

Berean Standard Bible
Now suppose this son has a son who sees all the sins his father has committed, considers them, and does not do likewise:

King James Bible
Now, lo, if he beget a son, that seeth all his father's sins which he hath done, and considereth, and doeth not such like,

New King James Version
If, however, he begets a son Who sees all the sins which his father has done, And considers but does not do likewise;

New American Standard Bible
“Now behold, he has fathered a son who saw all his father’s sins which he committed, but he has seen them and does not do likewise.

NASB 1995
“Now behold, he has a son who has observed all his father’s sins which he committed, and observing does not do likewise.

NASB 1977
“Now behold, he has a son who has observed all his father’s sins which he committed, and observing does not do likewise.

Legacy Standard Bible
“Now behold, he has a son who has seen all his father’s sins which he has done. And he saw this but does not do likewise.

Amplified Bible
“Now behold, if this [wicked] man has a son who has observed all the sins which his father committed, and considers [thoughtfully what he has observed] and does not do like his father:

Christian Standard Bible
“Now suppose he has a son who sees all the sins his father has committed, and though he sees them, he does not do likewise.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Now suppose he has a son who sees all the sins his father has committed, and though he sees them, he does not do likewise.

American Standard Version
Now, lo, if he beget a son, that seeth all his father's sins, which he hath done, and feareth, and doeth not such like;

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And if he will beget a son and he will see all of the sins that his father did and he will not do like them

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And if he beget a son, and the son see all his father's sins which he has wrought, and fear, and not do according to them,

Contemporary English Version
But suppose this evil man has a son who sees his father do these things and refuses to act like him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But if he beget a son, who, seeing all his father's sine, which he hath done, is afraid, and shall not do the like to them :

English Revised Version
Now, lo, if he beget a son, that seeth all his father's sins, which he hath done, and feareth, and doth not such like,

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"But suppose this person has a son. The son sees all the sins that his father does. He is afraid, so he doesn't do such things.

Good News Translation
"Now suppose this second man has a son. He sees all the sins his father practiced, but does not follow his example.

International Standard Version
"Now suppose that he produced a son who practiced all of his father's sins, but then that son began to fear me and stopped doing all of these things.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Now, lo, if he beget a son, that seeth all his father's sins, which he hath done, and considereth, and doeth not such like,

Literal Standard Version
And—behold, he has begotten a son, | And he sees all the sins of his father, | That he has done, and he fears, | And does not do like them,

Majority Standard Bible
Now suppose this son has a son who sees all the sins his father has committed, considers them, and does not do likewise:

New American Bible
But, in turn, if he begets a son who sees all the sins his father commits, yet fears and does not imitate him—

NET Bible
"But suppose he in turn has a son who notices all the sins his father commits, considers them, and does not follow his father's example.

New Revised Standard Version
But if this man has a son who sees all the sins that his father has done, considers, and does not do likewise,

New Heart English Bible
"Now, look, if he fathers a son, who sees all his father's sins, which he has done, and fears, and does not such like;

Webster's Bible Translation
Now lo, if he begetteth a son, that seeth all his father's sins which he hath done, and considereth, and doeth not such like,

World English Bible
“Now, behold, if he fathers a son who sees all his father’s sins which he has done, and fears, and doesn’t do likewise,

Young's Literal Translation
And -- lo, he hath begotten a son, And he seeth all the sins of his father, That he hath done, and he feareth, And doth not do like them,

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Context
A Proverb about Israel
13He engages in usury and takes excess interest. Will this son live? He will not! Since he has committed all these abominations, he will surely die; his blood will be on his own head. 14Now suppose this son has a son who sees all the sins his father has committed, considers them, and does not do likewise: 15He does not eat at the mountain or look to the idols of the house of Israel. He does not defile his neighbor’s wife.…

Cross References
2 Chronicles 29:6
For our fathers were unfaithful and did evil in the sight of the LORD our God. They abandoned Him, turned their faces away from the dwelling place of the LORD, and turned their backs on Him.

2 Chronicles 34:21
"Go and inquire of the LORD for me and for those remaining in Israel and Judah concerning the words in the book that has been found. For great is the wrath of the LORD that has been poured out on us because our fathers have not kept the word of the LORD by doing all that is written in this book."

Ezekiel 18:15
He does not eat at the mountain or look to the idols of the house of Israel. He does not defile his neighbor's wife.


Treasury of Scripture

Now, see, if he beget a son, that sees all his father's sins which he has done, and considers, and does not such like,

if he

Ezekiel 18:10
If he beget a son that is a robber, a shedder of blood, and that doeth the like to any one of these things,

Proverbs 17:21
He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy.

Proverbs 23:24
The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.

that seeth

Ezekiel 20:18
But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols:

2 Chronicles 29:3-11
He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of the LORD, and repaired them…

2 Chronicles 34:21
Go, inquire of the LORD for me, and for them that are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found: for great is the wrath of the LORD that is poured out upon us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the LORD, to do after all that is written in this book.

considereth

Ezekiel 18:28
Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.

Psalm 119:59,60
I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies…

Isaiah 44:19
And none considereth in his heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh, and eaten it: and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?

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Ezekiel 18
1. God defends his justice
31. and exhorts to repentance














(14) Doeth not such like.--This is the third case--that of the righteous son of a wicked father. The general principle is the same, that each man is to be judged according to his own individual character. The son of the righteous man has advantages, and the son of the wicked has hindrances in the way of righteousness which are not specified here, although elsewhere we are abundantly taught that responsibility is directly proportioned to privilege; but here the object is only to set forth in the clearest way, and apart from any other issues, the single fact of individual responsibility. In each case the particular examples of sin are somewhat varied, to show that they are mentioned only as examples, in order to set forth more clearly the general principle.

Verses 14-17. - Now, lo! etc. The law of personal responsibility had been pressed on its darker side. It is now asserted in its brighter, and that with the special emphasis indicated in its opening words. The proverb of the "sour grapes" receives a direct contradiction. The son of the evil doer way take warning by his father's example, and repent, as Ezekiel exhorted those among whom he lived to do. In that case he need fear no inherited or transmitted curse. He shall surely live; Hebrew, living he shall live. That truth came to Ezekiel as with the force of a new apocalypse, and it is obviously "exceeding broad," with far-reaching consequences both in ethics and theology.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Now
וְהִנֵּה֙ (wə·hin·nêh)
Conjunctive waw | Interjection
Strong's 2009: Lo! behold!

suppose [this son] has
הוֹלִ֣יד (hō·w·lîḏ)
Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3205: To bear young, to beget, medically, to act as midwife, to show lineage

a son
בֵּ֔ן (bên)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1121: A son

who sees
וַיַּ֕רְא (way·yar)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7200: To see

all
כָּל־ (kāl-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

the sins
חַטֹּ֥את (ḥaṭ·ṭōṯ)
Noun - feminine plural construct
Strong's 2403: An offence, its penalty, occasion, sacrifice, expiation, an offender

his father
אָבִ֖יו (’ā·ḇîw)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 1: Father

has committed,
עָשָׂ֑ה (‘ā·śāh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 6213: To do, make

considers them,
וַיִּרְאֶ֕ה (way·yir·’eh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7200: To see

and does not
וְלֹ֥א (wə·lō)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

do likewise:
יַעֲשֶׂ֖ה (ya·‘ă·śeh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 6213: To do, make


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