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

22Then call, and I will answer, or I will speak, and you respond to me. 23How many are my iniquities and sins? Show me my transgression and my sin. Why do you hide your face and regard me as your enemy? 25Do you wish to torment a windblown leaf and chase after dry chaff? 26For you write down bitter things against me and cause me to inherit the sins of my youth.

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 10:2I will say to God, ‘Do not condemn me; tell me why you are contending with me.’
• Job 29:2“O that I could be as I was in the months now gone, in the days when God watched over me,
• Deuteronomy 32:20He said, “I will reject them, I will see what will happen to them; for they are a perverse generation, children who show no loyalty.
• Psalms 10:1Why, Lord, do you stand far off? Why do you pay no attention during times of trouble?
• Psalms 13:1How long, Lord, will you continue to ignore me? How long will you pay no attention to me?
• Psalms 44:24Why do you look the other way, and ignore the way we are oppressed and mistreated?
• Psalms 77:6I said, “During the night I will remember the song I once sang; I will think very carefully.” I tried to make sense of what was happening.
• Psalms 88:14O Lord, why do you reject me, and pay no attention to me?
• Isaiah 8:17I will wait patiently for the Lord, who has rejected the family of Jacob; I will wait for him.
• Job 16:9His anger has torn me and persecuted me; he has gnashed at me with his teeth; my adversary locks his eyes on me.
• Job 19:11Thus his anger burns against me, and he considers me among his enemies.
• Job 30:21You have become cruel to me; with the strength of your hand you attack me.
• Job 31:35“If only I had someone to hear me! Here is my signature – let the Almighty answer me! If only I had an indictment that my accuser had written.
• Job 33:10Yet God finds occasions with me; he regards me as his enemy!
• 1 Samuel 28:16Samuel said, “Why are you asking me, now that the Lord has turned away from you and has become your enemy?
• Lamentations 2:5The Lord, like an enemy, destroyed Israel. He destroyed all her palaces; he ruined her fortified cities. He made everyone in Daughter Judah mourn and lament. ו (Vav)

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