Job 13:26 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁶For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.

Job 13:26 —

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Psalms 25:7
Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness' sake, O LORD.
John 5:14
Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.
Job 20:11
His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.
Jeremiah 31:19
Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.
Psalms 88:3-18
For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 23-28)

Here, I. Job enquires after his sins, and begs to have them discovered to him. He looks up to God, and asks him what was the number of them (How many are my iniquities?) and what were the particulars of them: Make me to know my transgressions, Job 13:23. His friends were ready enough to tell him how numerous and how heinous they were, Job 22:5. “But, Lord,” says he, “let me know them from thee; fo…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 26)

26. writest--a judicial phrase, to note down the determined punishment. The sentence of the condemned used to be written down (Is 10:1; Jr 22:30; Psa 149:9) [Umbreit]. bitter things--bitter punishments. makest me to possess--or “inherit.” In old age he receives possession of the inheritance of sin thoughtlessly acquired in youth. “To inherit sins” is to inherit the punishments inseparably connecte…