The Meaning of Job 13:26 Explained

Job 13:26

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

YLT: For Thou writest against me bitter things, And causest me to possess iniquities of my youth:

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

ASV: For thou writest bitter things against me, And makest me to inherit the iniquities of my youth:

KJV Reverse Interlinear

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

What does Job 13:26 Mean?

Context Summary

Job 13:1-28 - "though He Slay Me"
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 was suffering, might be set down, Job 13:23.
When Job said that he knew himself to be righteous, he was clearly speaking of known sin; he knew, so far as a man may know himself, that he had not committed the sins of which his friends charged him. He could bare his life to the inspection of men and angels, being sure that no accusation of which human law-courts would take cognizance could be established against him. But this is a very different matter with the divine tribunal. When a fuller light had shone upon him from the face of God, when the patriarch had seen Him instead of merely hearing of Him by the ear, then he would "abhor himself and repent in dust and ashes," Job 42:5-6.
Job 13:15 is almost the greatest sentence ever uttered by mortal lips! Let us ask for grace to affirm it. [source]

Chapter Summary: Job 13

1  Job reproves his friends for partiality
14  He professes his confidence in God;
19  and entreats to know his own sins, and God's purpose in afflicting him

What do the individual words in Job 13:26 mean?

For You write against me bitter things and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth
כִּֽי־ תִכְתֹּ֣ב עָלַ֣י מְרֹר֑וֹת וְ֝תוֹרִישֵׁ֗נִי עֲוֺנ֥וֹת נְעוּרָֽי

תִכְתֹּ֣ב  You  write 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, second person masculine singular
Root: כָּתַב  
Sense: to write, record, enrol.
עָלַ֣י  against  me 
Parse: Preposition, first person common singular
Root: עַל 
Sense: upon, on the ground of, according to, on account of, on behalf of, concerning, beside, in addition to, together with, beyond, above, over, by, on to, towards, to, against.
מְרֹר֑וֹת  bitter  things 
Parse: Noun, feminine plural
Root: מְרֹרָה  
Sense: bitter thing, gall, poison.
וְ֝תוֹרִישֵׁ֗נִי  and  make  me  inherit 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Hifil, Conjunctive imperfect, second person masculine singular, first person common singular
Root: יָרַשׁ  
Sense: to seize, dispossess, take possession off, inherit, disinherit, occupy, impoverish, be an heir.
עֲוֺנ֥וֹת  the  iniquities 
Parse: Noun, common plural construct
Root: עָוֹן  
Sense: perversity, depravity, iniquity, guilt or punishment of iniquity.
נְעוּרָֽי  of  my  youth 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural construct, first person common singular
Root: נְעוּרִים 
Sense: youth, early life.