Job 13:26 · KJV
“For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.”
— Job 13:26
Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
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. {lookest...: Heb. observest} {heels: Heb. roots}
Job 13 — Context
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?
25Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
26For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
27Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet. {lookest...: Heb. observest} {heels: Heb. roots}
28And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
Cross References
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.
John 5:5
And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.
Job 3:20
Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter {in} soul;
Ruth 1:20
And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me. {Naomi: that is, Pleasant} {Mara: that is, Bitter}
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.
Proverbs 5:11-13
And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
Psalms 88:3-18
For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.