Job 13:24

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

22Tell me to come and stand in front of you. Then I will answer you. Or allow me to speak first. Then you will reply to me. 23Tell me how many wrong things I have done. Show me what my sins are. Why do you hide yourself from me? Why do you think that I am your enemy? 25I am as weak as a leaf that the wind can blow away. But you still want to frighten me. I am as useless as chaff, but you still attack me. 26You write down things to accuse me. You punish me for the sins I did when I was young.

Job 13:24 word by word

לָֽמָּה־פָנֶ֥יךָ תַסְתִּ֑יר וְתַחְשְׁבֵ֖נִי לְאוֹיֵ֣ב לָֽךְ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Wherefore hidestסָתַרsâthar · to hideH5641
• thou thy faceפָּנֶהpânîym · faceH6440
• and holdestחָשַׁבchâshab · to devise: thinkH2803
• me for thine enemyאֹיֵב'ôyêb 'ôyêb · enemyH341

Cross-references for Job 13:24

• Job 10:2This is what I will say to God: “Do not say that I am guilty. Tell me what bad things you think I have done.
• Job 29:2‘I would like my life to be as it was before, many months ago. At that time, God took care of me.
• Deuteronomy 32:20He said, ‘I will not continue to help them. I will see what happens to them when I leave them alone. They are children who do not obey me. They have not served me faithfully.
• Psalms 10:1Must you stand so far away, Lord? Why do you hide when there is trouble?
• Psalms 13:1Lord, will you forget about me for ever? When will you remember to come and help me?
• Psalms 44:24Why do you turn away from us? Why do you forget our troubles and the way that people hurt us?
• Psalms 77:6At night, I remember the songs that I sang before. I think carefully about what is happening.
• Psalms 88:14Lord, why do you throw me out? Why do you turn away from me?
• Isaiah 8:17I will wait for the Lord to do what he says. He has turned away from the descendants of Jacob. But I will trust him to do what is right.
• Job 16:9God attacks me and he punishes me because he is angry. He shows his anger like a wild animal. He has become my enemy.
• Job 19:11He is very angry against me. He attacks me as if I am his enemy.
• Job 30:21You have become cruel to me. You have used your strength to attack me.
• Job 31:35I want someone to listen to me! All the things that I say are true. Almighty God should give me an answer! I need to know what I have done that is wrong. He should write down the reason why I am guilty!
• Job 33:10But God has decided to punish me! He attacks me as if I am his enemy.
• 1 Samuel 28:16Samuel said, ‘The Lord has turned away from you and he has become your enemy. So do not ask me what you should do.
• Lamentations 2:5The Lord has become like an enemy. He has destroyed Israel and all the beautiful houses there. He has destroyed all the strong towns that had walls. He has caused Judah's people to weep. They are very sad.

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

Topics related to Job 13:24

• Reasoning
• Sin

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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