Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 13:26

26. For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the Iniquities of my Youth .

i. e. Thou appointest or inflictest. A Metaphor from Princes or Judges, who antiently used to write their Sentences or Decrees, concerning Persons, or Causes, brought before them. See Psal. 149. 9. Ier. 22. 30. Ioh. 19. 22.

i. e. A terrible Sentence, or most grievous punishments.

Thou dost now at once bring upon me the punishment of all my sins, not excepting those of my Youth, which, because of the Folly and weakness of that Age, are usually excused or winked at, or, at least, but gently punished.

Marginal references: Psa. 25. 7.