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自業自得 (じごうじとく, jigoujitoku) Japanese meaning | Kotomora
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しっ
敗ぱい
し
た
の
は
自じ
業ごう
自じ
得とく
だ
。
It's his own fault that he failed.
Getting scolded for being late is just reaping what you sow.
Kanji 業 business, vocation, arts Related words 因果応報 is a formal Buddhist term for karmic retribution, while 自業自得 is the everyday phrase for 'you brought it on yourself'.
身から出た錆 is an idiom meaning one's own past actions cause present suffering, essentially the same idea as 自業自得 but phrased as a metaphor about rust from one's own body.
自業自得 stresses that someone is reaping the consequences of their own past actions, whereas 自滅 focuses on the act of destroying oneself, often through ongoing mistakes.
Etymology A Buddhist expression meaning that one receives the consequences of one’s own deeds, formed from 自業, “one’s own actions,” and 自得, “receiving for oneself.”
