Job 13:26 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

• Job 13:26 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  For thou writest bitter things against me - Charges or accusations of severity. We use the word “bitter” now in a somewhat similar sense. We speak of bitter sorrow, bitter cold, etc. The language...

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• Job 13:26 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess (m) the iniquities of my youth. (m) You punish me now for the sins that I committed in my youth.

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• Job 13:26 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth. Thou writest bitter things against me - The indictment is filled with bitter or grievous charges, which...

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• Job 13:26 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Thou writest bitter things against me— The author of the Divine Legation, zealous to support his allegorical scheme, is always desirous, for that end, to point out inconsistencies in this book. "Th...

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• Job 13:26 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth. Writest - a judicial phrase, to note down the determined punishment. The sentence of the condem...

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• Job 13:26 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Job's Third Speech (continued) 1-12. Job claims to understand as much about God as the friends. He rejects their opinion as to the cause of his troubles, and regards it as an attempt to curry favo...

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• Job 13:26 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  For thou writest bitter things against me. — Exquisitely plaintive and affecting is this confession.

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• Job 13:26 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  XII. BEYOND FACT AND FEAR TO GOD Job 12:1-25 ; Job 13:1-28 ; Job 14:1-22 Job SPEAKS ZOPHAR excites in Job's mind great irritation, which must not be set down altogether to the fact that he...

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• Job 13:26 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “Though He Slay Me” Job 13:1-28 The sufferer first rebukes his friends, Job 13:4-12 . Then he makes an appeal to God, affirming that he was no hypocrite, and asking that his sins, for which he...

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• Job 13:26 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Continuing his answer, Job restated his conviction that his knowledge was not inferior to theirs, and declared that his appeal was to God (1-3). Before making this appeal there is an introductory pas...

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• Job 13:26 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  For thou writest bitter things against me ,.... Meaning not sins and rebellions, taken notice of by him, when his good deeds were omitted, as Jarchi; sin is indeed an evil and a bitter thing in its...

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• Job 13:26 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth. Ver. 26. For thou writest bitter things against me ] As it were by a judicial rescript thou decree...

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• Job 13:26 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  For thou writest That is, thou appointest; bitter things against me A terrible sentence, or most grievous punishments. It is a metaphor taken from the custom of princes or judges, who anciently u...

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• Job 13:26 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  JOB DECLARES HIMSELF FULLY EQUAL TO HIS FRIENDS (vv.1-12) Job has spoken at length of God's wisdom and power, now he tells Zophar that his eye has seen all this, his ear has heard it and underst...

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• Job 13:26 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        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 drive...

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• Job 13:26 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Thou writest, i.e. thou appointest or inflictest. A metaphor from princes or judges, who anciently used to write their sentence or decrees concerning persons or causes brought before them. See Ps...

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• Job 13:26 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  JOB’S REPLY TO ZOPHAR—CONTINUED I. Job re-asserts his knowledge of the Divine procedure as not inferior to that of his friends ( Job 13:1-2 ). “Lo, mine eye,” &c. Right in certain circumsta...

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• Job 13:26 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Job 13:26 I. Shadows are suffered to fall on us, and to overcast a while the brightness of God's firmament, partly to show us what hell is, and to make us flee from it. II. These afflictions, whi...

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• Job 13:26 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Job 13:4 . Forgers of lies, misconstruing the ways of providence. Job 13:10 , He will surely reprove you, though under a specious veil you accept of persons. Job 13:12 . Your remembrance...

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• Job 13:26 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth. The iniquities of youth visited The errors and sins of youth do often entail a very fearful responsib...

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• Job 13:26 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Job 13:1 , Job 13:2 The first two verses of Job 13:1-18 . are closely connected with Job 12:1-18 ; forming the natural termination to the first section of Job's argument,...

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• Job 13:26 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Job's Comfort and Prayer

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• Job 13:26 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Jeremiah 31:19 ; Job 20:11 ; Job 3:20 ; John 5:14 ; John 5:5 ; Proverbs 5:11-13 ; Psalms 25:7 ; Psalms 88:3-18 ; Ruth 1:20

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• Job 13:26 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Writest — Thou appointest or inflictest. A metaphor from princes or judges, who anciently used to write their sentences.

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