Job 13:26

For thou hast written evil things against me, 1 And thou hast compassed me with the sins of my youth. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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 be startled at me, as at a leaf shaken by the wind? 1 Or wilt thou set thyself against me as against grass borne upon the breeze? 1

27And thou hast placed my foot in the stocks; 1 And thou hast watched all my works, 1 And hast penetrated to my heels. 1

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Cross References

1 Kings 17:18And she said to Elijah, What have I to do with thee, O man of God? hast thou come in to me to bring my sins to remembrance, and to slay my son?

Job 20:11His bones have been filled with vigor of his youth, 1 And it shall lie down with him in the dust. 1

Psalms 88:3For thou hast said, Mercy shall be built up forever: 1 Thy truth shall be established in the heavens. 1

Jeremiah 31:19Stand by the way, and look, thou that dwellest in Aroer; and ask him that is fleeing, and him that escapes, and say, What has happened?

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 →

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