Job 13:26

for you have written evil things against me, and you have compassed me with the sins of my youth.

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.

In Context

25Will you be startled at me, as at a leaf shaken by the wind? or will you set yourself against me as against grass borne upon the breeze?

27And you have placed my foot in the stocks; and you have watched all my works, and have penetrated my heels.

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Cross References

1 Kings 17:18And she said to Eliu, What have I to do with you, O man of God? have you come in to me to bring my sins to remembrance, and to kill my son?

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

Psalms 88:3I made a covenant with my chosen ones, I swore to David my servant. 1

Jeremiah 31:19Stand by the way, and look, you that dwell in Arer; 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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