Job 13:26

For Thou writest down merorot (bitter things) against me, 1 and makest me to inherit the avonot of my neurim (youth). 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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 frighten away a leaf driven to and fro? 1 And wilt Thou pursue the dry kash (straw, chaff)? 1

27Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, 1 and observest kol orkhot (paths, ways) of me; 1 Thou settest a mark upon the soles of my raglayim, 1

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Cross References

1 Kings 17:18And she said unto Eliyahu, Mah li valach (what have I to do with thee), Ish HaElohim? Art thou come unto me to remind me of my avon, and to slay beni?

Job 20:11His atzmot are full of youthful vigor, 1 which shall lie down with him in the aphar. 1

Psalms 88:3Let my tefillah come before Thee; 1 incline Thine ear unto my cry. 1

Jeremiah 31:19Is Ephrayim My ben yakir (dear son)? 1 Is he a yeled in whom I delight? 1 For though I spoke rebuke of him, 1 I do earnestly remember him still; 1 therefore My heart yearns for him; 1 I will surely have rachamim (mercy) upon him, saith Hashem. 1

John 5:14After these things Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach finds him in the Beis Hamikdash, and said to him, Hinei, you have received your refu'ah. No longer commit averos, for fear that something worse 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 →

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