Job 13:26

for thou writest Or, that thou writest. To "write" is to prescribe, or ordain, Isaiah 10:1; Hosea 8:12.

makest me to possess Or, inherit. Job acknowledges sins of his youth, not of his riper manhood, and he conceives that his present afflictions may be for his former sins, which in his past fellowship with God he had deemed long forgiven. It is not to be supposed that he looks back on gross youthful sins, but on such as youth is not free from, and as he feared in his own children, ch. Job 1:5. Cf. the prayer of the Psalmist, Psalms 25:7.