Job 13:26

24 Why do You hide Your face and consider me as Your enemy?

25 Would You frighten a windblown leaf? Would You chase after dry chaff?

For You record bitter accusations against me and bequeath to me the iniquities of my youth.

27 You put my feet in the stocks and stand watch over all my paths; You set a limit for the soles of my feet.

28 So man wastes away like something rotten, like a moth-eaten garment.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB
For You record bitter accusations against me and bequeath to me the iniquities of my youth.
KJV
For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
WEB
For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.
ASV
For thou writest bitter things against me, And makest me to inherit the iniquities of my youth:
DARBY
For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth;
BLB
For You write against me bitter [things], and you make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.
ÅB
siden du idømmer meg så hårde lidelser og lar meg arve min ungdoms misgjerninger
OTB
For du skriver bitre ting mot meg
Og får meg til å bære konsekvensene av min ungdom.
B1930
siden du idømmer mig så hårde lidelser og lar mig arve min ungdoms misgjerninger

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Psalms 25:7

    Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my rebellious acts; remember me according to Your loving devotion, because of Your goodness, O LORD.

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  • John 5:14

    Afterward, Jesus found the man at the temple and said to him, “See, you have been made well. Stop sinning, or something worse may happen to you.”

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  • Job 20:11

    The youthful vigor that fills his bones will lie down with him in the dust.

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  • Jeremiah 31:19

    After I returned, I repented; and after I was instructed, I struck my thigh in grief. I was ashamed and humiliated because I bore the disgrace of my youth.’

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  • Job 3:20

    Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul,

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  • Proverbs 5:11–13

    At the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are spent,

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  • John 5:5

    One man there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.

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  • Ruth 1:20

    “Do not call me Naomi,” she replied. “Call me Mara, because the Almighty has dealt quite bitterly with me.

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