New King James Version
Job 13:24
24Why do You hide Your face, And regard 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 Living Translation (NLT)Why do you turn away from me? Why do you treat me as your enemy?
Context of Job 13:24
22Then call, and I will answer; Or let me speak, then You respond to me. 23How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my transgression and my sin. Why do You hide Your face, And regard me as Your enemy? 25Will You frighten a leaf driven to and fro? And will You pursue dry stubble? 26For You write bitter things against me, And make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.
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לָֽמָּה־פָנֶ֥יךָ תַסְתִּ֑יר וְתַחְשְׁבֵ֖נִי לְאוֹיֵ֣ב לָֽךְ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 13:24
- Job 10:2I will say to God, ‘Do not condemn me; Show me why You contend with me.
- Job 29:2“Oh, that I were as in months past, As in the days when God watched over me;
- Deuteronomy 32:20And He said: ‘I will hide My face from them, I will see what their end will be, For they are a perverse generation, Children in whom is no faith.
- Psalms 10:1Why do You stand afar off, O Lord? 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 our oppression?
- Psalms 77:6I call to remembrance my song in the night; I meditate within my heart, And my spirit makes diligent search.
- Psalms 88:14Lord, why do You cast off my soul? Why do You hide Your face from me?
- Isaiah 8:17And I will wait on the Lord, Who hides His face from the house of Jacob; And I will hope in Him.
- Job 16:9He tears me in His wrath, and hates me; He gnashes at me with His teeth; My adversary sharpens His gaze on me.
- Job 19:11He has also kindled His wrath against me, And He counts me as one of His enemies.
- Job 30:21But You have become cruel to me; With the strength of Your hand You oppose me.
- Job 31:35Oh, that I had one to hear me! Here is my mark. Oh, that the Almighty would answer me, That my Prosecutor had written a book!
- Job 33:10Yet He finds occasions against me, He counts me as His enemy;
- 1 Samuel 28:16Then Samuel said: “So why do you ask me, seeing the Lord has departed from you and has become your enemy?
- Lamentations 2:5The Lord was like an enemy. He has swallowed up Israel, He has swallowed up all her palaces; He has destroyed her strongholds, And has increased mourning and lamentation In 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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