Job 13:26

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּֽי־תִכְתֹּ֣ב עָלַ֣י מְרֹר֑וֹת וְ֝תוֹרִישֵׁ֗נִי עֲוֺנ֥וֹת נְעוּרָֽי׃

Transliteration

kî-t̄ikt̄ōb ʿālay merōrôt̄ wet̄ôrîšēnî ʿăwōnôt̄ neʿûrāy

Grammar Details

• *kî*: conjunction - for/because
• *t̄ikt̄ōb*: verb, Qal imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular - you write
• *ʿālay*: preposition with 1st person singular suffix - against me
• *merōrôt̄*: noun, feminine plural - bitter things
• *wet̄ôrîšēnî*: conjunction + verb, Hiphil imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular with 1st person singular suffix - and you make me inherit
• *ʿăwōnôt̄*: noun, masculine plural construct - iniquities of
• *neʿûrāy*: noun, masculine plural construct with 1st person singular suffix - my youth

Word Meanings

• *t̄ikt̄ōb*: write/record/decree
• *merōrôt̄*: bitter things/bitterness
• *t̄ôrîšēnî*: make me inherit/cause me to possess
• *ʿăwōnôt̄*: iniquities/perversities/guilt

Referenced Verses

• Ps 25:7 : 7 Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness' sake, O LORD.
• Ps 88:3-9 : 3 For my soul is full{H8804)} of troubles: and my life draweth nigh{H8689)} unto the grave. 4 I am counted{H8738)} with them that go down{H8802)} into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength: 5 Free among the dead{H8801)}, like the slain that lie{H8802)} in the grave, whom thou rememberest{H8804)} no more: and they are cut off{H8738)} from thy hand. 6 Thou hast laid{H8804)} me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps. 7 Thy wrath lieth hard{H8804)} upon me, and thou hast afflicted{H8765)} me with all thy waves. Selah. 8 Thou hast put away mine acquaintance{H8794)} far{H8689)} from me; thou hast made{H8804)} me an abomination unto them: I am shut up{H8803)}, and I cannot come forth{H8799)}. 9 Mine eye mourneth{H8804)} by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called{H8804)} daily upon thee, I have stretched out{H8765)} my hands unto thee. 10 Wilt thou shew{H8799)} wonders to the dead{H8801)}? shall the dead arise{H8799)} and praise{H8686)} thee? Selah. 11 Shall thy lovingkindness be declared{H8792)} in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction? 12 Shall thy wonders be known{H8735)} in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? 13 But unto thee have I cried{H8765)}, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent{H8762)} thee. 14 LORD, why castest thou off{H8799)} my soul? why hidest{H8686)} thou thy face from me? 15 I am afflicted and ready to die{H8802)} from my youth up: while I suffer{H8804)} thy terrors I am distracted{H8799)}. 16 Thy fierce wrath goeth over{H8804)} me; thy terrors have cut me off{H8768)}. 17 They came round about{H8804)} me daily like water; they compassed{H8689)} me about together. 18 Lover{H8802)} and friend hast thou put far{H8689)} from me, and mine acquaintance{H8794)} into darkness.
• Prov 5:11-13 : 11 And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed, 12 And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof; 13 And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
• Jer 31:19 : 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.
• John 5:5 : 5 And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.
• John 5:14 : 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.
• Ruth 1:20 : 20 And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.
• Job 3:20 : 20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
• Job 20:11 : 11 His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.