Verse 26
26. Thou writest A judicial term, observes Rosenmuller, referring to the custom of writing the sentence of a person condemned, thus decreeing the punishment. Psalms 149:9. Among the Arabs a writing is used to denote a judicial sentence.
Bitter things Prof. Lee mentions an Oriental adage, “Disease and want are two things more bitter than the juice of the colocynth.”
Possess Inherit.
Iniquities Same as in Job 13:23, from עוה , to be bent or distorted. “Evil is a departure from man’s appointed path.”
The iniquities of my youth Nature is ever slow to punish the transgressor. God’s mercy is thus proclaimed through the constitution of things he has himself founded. Youth is blindly led to presume upon apparent security. Nature, however, never forgets. She “lays up the depths in storehouses;” so all transgressions are housed against a retributive future. At the period of man’s greatest feebleness, amid the infirmities of many years, she lets loose against the transgressor imprisoned evils the sins of youth. They prove a fearful heritage, upon which the man as naturally enters as a child does upon the estate of a deceased parent. Thus, in a sense vastly different from that, the Italian artist thought, “the remembrance of youth is a sigh.”
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