Christian Standard Bible
Job 13:24
24Why do you hide your face and consider me 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, and I will answer, or I will speak, and you can respond to me. 23How many iniquities and sins have I committed? Reveal to me my transgression and sin. Why do you hide your face and consider me your enemy? 25Will you frighten a wind-driven leaf? Will you chase after dry straw? 26For you record bitter accusations against me and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.
Read all of Job 13Job 13:24 word by word
לָֽמָּה־פָנֶ֥יךָ תַסְתִּ֑יר וְתַחְשְׁבֵ֖נִי לְאוֹיֵ֣ב לָֽךְ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 13:24
- Job 10:2I will say to God, “Do not declare me guilty! Let me know why you prosecute me.
- Job 29:2If only I could be as in months gone by, in the days when God watched over me,
- Deuteronomy 32:20He said, “I will hide my face from them; I will see what will become of them, for they are a perverse generation — unfaithful children.
- Psalms 10:1Lord, why do you stand so far away? Why do you hide in times of trouble?
- Psalms 13:1How long, Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?
- Psalms 44:24Why do you hide and forget our affliction and oppression?
- Psalms 77:6At night I remember my music; I meditate in my heart, and my spirit ponders.
- Psalms 88:14Lord, why 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 wait for him.
- Job 16:9His anger tears at me, and he harasses me. He gnashes his teeth at me. My enemy pierces me with his eyes.
- Job 19:11His anger burns against me, and he regards me as one of his enemies.
- Job 30:21You have turned against me with cruelty; you harass me with your strong hand.
- Job 31:35If only I had someone to hear my case! Here is my signature; let the Almighty answer me. Let my Opponent compose his indictment.
- Job 33:10But he finds reasons to oppose me; he regards me as his enemy.
- 1 Samuel 28:16Samuel answered, “Since the Lord has turned away from you and has become your enemy, why are you asking me?
- Lamentations 2:5The Lord is like an enemy; he has swallowed up Israel. He swallowed up all its palaces and destroyed its fortified cities. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation within Daughter 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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