Job 13:26
That Thou shouldest write bitter things against me, and make me to inherit the iniquities of my youth.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
In Context
25Wilt Thou harass a driven leaf? And wilt Thou pursue the dry stubble?
Cross References
1 Kings 17:18And she said unto Elijah: 'What have I to do with thee, O thou man of God? art thou come unto me to bring my sin to remembrance, and to slay my son?'
Job 20:11His bones are full of his youth, but it shall lie down with him in the dust.
Psalms 88:3(88-4) For my soul is sated with troubles, and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
Jeremiah 31:19Surely after that I was turned, I repented, and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh; I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.'
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 →