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

22Now summon me, and I will answer! Or let me speak to you, and you reply. 23Tell me, what have I done wrong? Show me my rebellion and my sin. Why do you turn away from me? Why do you treat me as your enemy? 25Would you terrify a leaf blown by the wind? Would you chase dry straw? 26“You write bitter accusations against me and bring up all 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, ‘Don’t simply condemn me— tell me the charge you are bringing against me.
• Job 29:2“I long for the years gone by when God took care of me,
• Deuteronomy 32:20He said, ‘I will abandon them; then see what becomes of them. For they are a twisted generation, children without integrity.
• Psalms 10:1O Lord, why do you stand so far away? Why do you hide when I am in trouble?
• Psalms 13:1O Lord, how long will you forget me? Forever? How long will you look the other way?
• Psalms 44:24Why do you look the other way? Why do you ignore our suffering and oppression?
• Psalms 77:6when my nights were filled with joyful songs. I search my soul and ponder the difference now.
• Psalms 88:14O Lord, why do you reject me? Why do you turn your face from me?
• Isaiah 8:17I will wait for the Lord, who has turned away from the descendants of Jacob. I will put my hope in him.
• Job 16:9God hates me and angrily tears me apart. He snaps his teeth at me and pierces me with his eyes.
• Job 19:11His fury burns against me; he counts me as an enemy.
• Job 30:21You have become cruel toward me. You use your power to persecute me.
• Job 31:35“If only someone would listen to me! Look, I will sign my name to my defense. Let the Almighty answer me. Let my accuser write out the charges against me.
• Job 33:10God is picking a quarrel with me, and he considers me his enemy.
• 1 Samuel 28:16But Samuel replied, “Why ask me, since the Lord has left you and has become your enemy?
• Lamentations 2:5Yes, the Lord has vanquished Israel like an enemy. He has destroyed her palaces and demolished her fortresses. He has brought unending sorrow and tears upon beautiful Jerusalem.

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