Job 13:24

Job 13:24 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine 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?
• New Living Translation (NLT)Why do you turn away from me? Why do you treat me as your enemy?

Context of Job 13:24

22Then summon me and I will answer, or let me speak, and you reply to me. 23How many wrongs and sins have I committed? Show me my offense and my sin. Why do you hide your face and consider me your enemy? 25Will you torment a windblown leaf? Will you chase after dry chaff? 26For you write down bitter things against me and make me reap 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 say to God: Do not declare me guilty, but tell me what charges you have against me.
• Job 29:2“How I long for the months gone by, for the days when God watched over me,
• Deuteronomy 32:20“I will hide my face from them,” he said, “and see what their end will be; for they are a perverse generation, children who are unfaithful.
• Psalms 10:1Why, Lord, do you stand far off? Why do you hide yourself 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 your face and forget our misery and oppression?
• Psalms 77:6I remembered my songs in the night. My heart meditated and my spirit asked:
• Psalms 88:14Why, Lord, do you reject me and hide your face from me?
• Isaiah 8:17I will wait for the Lord, who is hiding his face from the descendants of Jacob. I will put my trust in him.
• Job 16:9God assails me and tears me in his anger and gnashes his teeth at me; my opponent fastens on me his piercing eyes.
• Job 19:11His anger burns against me; he counts me among his enemies.
• Job 30:21You turn on me ruthlessly; with the might of your hand you attack me.
• Job 31:35(“Oh, that I had someone to hear me! I sign now my defense—let the Almighty answer me; let my accuser put his indictment in writing.
• Job 33:10Yet God has found fault with me; he considers me his enemy.
• 1 Samuel 28:16Samuel said, “Why do you consult me, now that the Lord has departed 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 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

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