Religion

Job 13:26: Gainst me Thou writest bitter things

by Charles Wesley 1707–1788

From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762) · Osborn ed., vol. 9 (1870)

Religion

Gainst me Thou writest bitter things.
Thy rod the high indictment brings;
My flesh Thine arrows tear:
Thy terrors in my soul I feel.
They drive me to the verge of hell,
The confines of despair.

MLA

Wesley, Charles. “Job 13:26: Gainst me Thou writest bitter things.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/3106/.

Chicago

Wesley, Charles. “Job 13:26: Gainst me Thou writest bitter things.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/3106/.

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