Job 13:26
For you write bitter things against me, and make me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
Updated King James 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
25Will you break a leaf driven back and forth? and will you pursue the dry stubble?
Cross References
1 Kings 17:18And she said unto Elijah, What have I to do with you, O you man of God? are you come unto me to call my sin to remembrance, and to slay my son?
Job 20:11His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.
Psalms 88:3For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draws nigh unto the grave.
Jeremiah 31:19Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I stroke upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.
John 5:14Afterward Jesus finds him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, you are made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto 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 →