Job 13:26
For You write bitter things against me, || And cause me to possess iniquities of my youth,
Literal Standard 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
25Do You terrify a leaf driven away? And do You pursue the dry stubble?
Cross References
1 Kings 17:18And she says to Elijah, “What [is this] to me and to you, O man of God? You have come to me to cause my iniquity to be remembered, and to put my son to death!”
Job 20:11His bones have been full of his youth, and it lies down with him on the dust.
Psalms 88:3For my soul has been full of evils, || And my life has come to Sheol.
Jeremiah 31:19For after my turning back I regretted, || And after my being instructed I struck on the thigh, || I have been ashamed, I have also blushed, || For I have borne the reproach of my youth.
John 5:14After these things, Jesus finds him in the temple and said to him, “Behold, you have become whole; sin no more, lest 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 →