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Job Chapter 13 verse 26 Holy Bible

ASV Job 13:26

For thou writest bitter things against me, And makest me to inherit the iniquities of my youth:
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BBE Job 13:26

For you put bitter things on record against me, and send punishment on me for the sins of my early years;
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DARBY Job 13:26

For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth;
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KJV Job 13:26

For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
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WBT Job 13:26

For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
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WEB Job 13:26

For you write bitter things against me, And make me inherit the iniquities of my youth:
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YLT Job 13:26

For Thou writest against me bitter things, And causest me to possess iniquities of my youth:
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 26. - For thou writest bitter things against me. The allusion seems to be to the ordinary practice in ancient law-courts of formulating a written acte d'accusation against supposed criminals. Keeping up the imagery of a court and pleadings, Job represents God as engaged in drawing up such a document against him. The "bitter things" are the charges which the acts contains. And makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth. Job, like David, has to acknowledge "sins and offences" committed in his youth (Psalm 25:6). In considering what the indictment against him can be, he can only suppose that these old and long-forsaken sins are being remembered and brought up against him, and that he is being punished for them. He does not exclaim against this as injustice; he feels probably that there is no statute of limitations respecting sins and their punishment; but it can scarcely have seemed to him consistent with God's goodness and mercifulness that the offences of his immature age should be visited upon him so bitterly.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(26) For thou writest bitter things against me.--Exquisitely plaintive and affecting is this confession.