Job 13:26
For you write down bitter things against me and pay me back for the sins of my youth.
Free Bible 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
25Would you frighten a leaf blown by the wind or hunt down a piece of straw?
27You put my feet in the stocks. You keep an eye on every step I take. You even inspect my footprints!
Cross References
1 Kings 17:18“What are you doing to me, man of God?” the woman asked Elijah. “Have you come to remind me about my sins and cause my son to die?”
Job 20:11Though the wicked have bodies that are young and strong, they will die and be buried.
Psalms 88:3My life is full of troubles, and my death is approaching.
Jeremiah 31:19When I came back to you I was sorry, and once I understood, I held my head in sadness. I was ashamed and I blushed, embarrassed at what I'd done when I was young.”
John 5:14Later on Jesus found the man in the Temple, and told him, “Look, now you've been healed. So stop sinning or 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 →