Job 13:26
For you write bitter things against me, and you want to consume me for the sins of my youth.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
In Context
25Against a leaf, which is carried away by the wind, you reveal your power, and you pursue dry straw.
Cross References
1 Kings 17:18Therefore, she said to Elijah: “What is there between you and me, O man of God? Have you entered to me, so that my iniquities would be remembered, and so that you would put to death my son?”
Job 20:11His bones will be filled with the vices of his youth, and they will sleep with him in the dust.
Psalms 88:3For you have said: Mercy will be built in the heavens, unto eternity. Your truth will be prepared there.
Jeremiah 31:19For after you converted me, I did penance. And after you revealed to me, I struck my thigh. I am confounded and ashamed. For I have endured the disgrace of my youth.’
John 5:14Afterwards, Jesus found him in the temple, and he said to him: “Behold, you have been healed. Do not choose to sin further, otherwise something worse may happen to you.”
Matthew Henry on Job 13:24-28
23 How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin. 24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy? 25 Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble? 26 For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth. 27 Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet. 28 And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a… Read the whole commentary →