Berean Standard Bible
Job 13:24
24Why do You hide Your face and consider me as Your enemy?
Job 13:24 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?
- New International Version (NIV)Why do you hide your face and consider me your enemy?
- English Standard Version (ESV)Why do you hide your face and count me as your enemy?
- New King James Version (NKJV)Why do You hide Your face, And regard me as Your enemy?
Context of Job 13:24
22Then call me, and I will answer, or let me speak, and You can reply. 23How many are my iniquities and sins? Reveal to me my transgression and sin. Why do You hide Your face and consider me as Your enemy? 25Would You frighten a windblown leaf? Would You chase after dry chaff? 26For You record bitter accusations against me and bequeath to me the iniquities of my youth.
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לָֽמָּה־פָנֶ֥יךָ תַסְתִּ֑יר וְתַחְשְׁבֵ֖נִי לְאוֹיֵ֣ב לָֽךְ׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Job 13:24
- Job 10:2I will say to God: Do not condemn me! Let me know why You prosecute me.
- Job 29:2“How I long for the months gone by, for the days when God watched over me,
- Deuteronomy 32:20He said: “I will hide My face from them; I will see what will be their end. For they are a perverse generation— children of unfaithfulness.
- Psalms 10:1Why, O LORD, do You stand far off? Why do You hide in times of trouble?
- Psalms 13:1How long, O LORD? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?
- Psalms 44:24Why do You hide Your face and forget our affliction and oppression?
- Psalms 77:6At night I remembered my song; in my heart I mused, and my spirit pondered:
- Psalms 88:14Why, O LORD, do You reject me? Why do You hide Your face from me?
- Isaiah 8:17I will wait for the LORD, who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob. I will put my trust in Him.
- Job 16:9His anger has torn me and opposed me; He gnashes His teeth at me. My adversary pierces me with His eyes.
- Job 19:11His anger burns against me, and He counts me among His enemies.
- Job 30:21You have ruthlessly turned on me; You oppose me with Your strong hand.
- Job 31:35(Oh, that I had one to hear me! Here is my signature. Let the Almighty answer me; let my accuser compose an indictment.
- Job 33:10Yet God finds occasions against me; He counts me as His enemy.
- 1 Samuel 28:16“Why do you consult me,” asked Samuel, “since the LORD has turned away from you and become your enemy?
- Lamentations 2:5The Lord is like an enemy; He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces and destroyed her strongholds. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation for the Daughter of Judah.
Commentaries on Job 13:24
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 24Wherefore hidest thou thy face - Why is it that I no longer enjoy thy approbation? Holdest me for thine enemy? - Treatest me as if I were the vilest of sinners?Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 24Wherefore hidest thou thy face - To hide the face, or to turn it away, is expressive of disapprobation. We turn away the face when we are offended with anyone. See the notes at Isaiah 1:15. And holdest me for thine enemy - Regardest and treatest me as an enemy.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 23-28Verses 23-28 Job begs to have his sins discovered to him. A true penitent is willing to know the worst of himself; and we should all desire to know what our transgressions are, that we may confess them, and guard against them for the future. Job complains sorrowfully of God's severe dealings with him. Time does not wear out the guilt of sin. When God writes bitter things against us, his design is to make us bring forgotten sins to mind, and so to bring us…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 24God can turn away in "anger"(Deuteronomy 31:18; Isaiah 54:8; Jeremiah 33:5). Or he can choose not to show friendship (Psalms 30:7; 69:17; 102:2). Job, perhaps making a play of words on his own name (’iyyob), denied being God's enemy (’oyeb).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2424. hidest ... face--a figure from the gloomy impression caused by the sudden clouding over of the sun. enemy--God treated Job as an enemy who must be robbed of power by ceaseless sufferings (Job 7:17, 21).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 13
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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