Job 13:26

“For thou writest bitter things against me, etc.] 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 own nature, being exceeding sinful and abominable, and its effects and consequences; being what provokes God to anger most bitterly, and makes bitter work for repentance; as it did in Peter, who, when made sensible of it, wept bitterly, (<402675>Matthew 26:75 <422262>Luke 22:62); sooner or later, sin, though it is a sweet morsel rolled about in the mouth for a while, yet in the issue proves the gall of asps within, (<182014>Job 20:14), bitter and distressing; and this God also puts down in the…”

“writest--a judicial phrase, to note down the determined punishment. The sentence of the condemned used to be written down (Isa 10:1; Jer 22:30; Psa 149:9) [UMBREIT]. bitter things--bitter punishments. makest me to possess--or "inherit." In old age he receives possession of the inheritance of sin thoughtlessly acquired in youth. "To inherit sins" is to inherit the punishments inseparably connected with them in Hebrew ideas (Psa 25:7).”

“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 here is all taken from courts of justice, and Job is carrying cut the train of thought on which he had entered in regard to a trial before God. He says that the accusations which God had brought against him were of a bitter and severe character; charging him with aggravated offences, and recalling the sins of his youth, and holding him responsible for them. Rosenmuller remarks that the word “write” here is a judicial term, referring to the custom of writing the sentence of a person condemned (as in…”

“Writest - Thou appointest or inflictest. A metaphor from princes or judges, who anciently used to write their sentences. Job 13:28”

“writest: Job 3:20; Rut 1:20; Psa. 88:3-18 makest: Job 20:11; Psa 25:7; Pro 5:11-13; Jer 31:19; Joh 5:5, Joh 5:14 Job 13:27”

“26 For Thou decreest bitter things against me, And causest me to possess the iniquities of my youth, 27 And puttest my feet in the stocks, And observest all my ways. Thou makest for thyself a circle round the soles of my feet, 28 Round one who moulders away as worm-eaten, As a garment that the moth gnaweth. He is conscious of having often prayed: "Remember not the sins of my youth, and my transgressions: according to Thy mercy remember Thou me," Psa 25:7; and still he can only regard his affliction as the inheritance (i.e., entailed upon him by sins not repented of) of the sins of his youth, since he has no sins of his mature years that would incur wrath, to reproach himself with. He does…”