For You record bitter accusations against me and bequeath to me the iniquities of my youth.
Parallel translations
- WEB For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth:
- KJV For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
- NKJV For You write bitter things against me, And make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.
- NASB “For You write bitter things against me And make me inherit the guilty deeds of my youth.
- NLT “You write bitter accusations against me and bring up all the sins of my youth.
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Quick answer
Job feels God is recording bitter charges and recalling his youthful sins. He senses old failings held against him.
Overview
Job says God writes 'bitter things' against him and makes him inherit 'the iniquities of my youth.' He perceives his present suffering as a reckoning for past sins, even those long ago. While he overstates God's motives, the verse honestly voices how the afflicted can feel pursued by their history.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Ps 25:7Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my rebellious acts; remember me according to Your loving devotion, because of Your goodness, O LORD.
- John 5:14Afterward, 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.”
- Jer 31:19After 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.’
- Ruth 1:20“Do not call me Naomi,” she replied. “Call me Mara, because the Almighty has dealt quite bitterly with me.
- Prov 5:11–13At the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are spent,
- Ps 88:3–18For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol.
- Job 3:20Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul,
- John 5:5One man there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.
- Job 20:11The youthful vigor that fills his bones will lie down with him in the dust.
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