Tree of Life Version
Job 13:24
24Why do You hide Your face and consider me 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 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 transgressions and sin. Why do You hide Your face and consider me Your enemy? 25Will You frighten a windblown leaf and chase after dry chaff? 26For You write bitter things against me and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.
Read all of Job 13Job 13:24 word by word
לָֽמָּה־פָנֶ֥יךָ תַסְתִּ֑יר וְתַחְשְׁבֵ֖נִי לְאוֹיֵ֣ב לָֽךְ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 13:24
- Job 10:2I will say to God, ‘Do not condemn me; tell me why You contend with me.’
- Job 29:2“O that I could be as in the months gone by, as in the days when God watched over me,
- Deuteronomy 32:20He said, “I will hide My face from them, I want to see their hereafter. For they are an upside down generation, children with no faithfulness in them.
- Psalms 10:1Why, Adonai, are You standing far off? Why hide Yourself in times of trouble?
- Psalms 13:1For the music director, a psalm of David.
- Psalms 44:24Awake! Why do you sleep, my Lord? Wake up! Do not cast us off forever.
- Psalms 77:6I ponder the days of old, the years long ago.
- Psalms 88:14But I—I cried out to You, Adonai, and in the morning my prayer meets You.
- Isaiah 8:17I will wait for Adonai, who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob, and I will look eagerly for Him.
- Job 16:9His anger has torn and tormented me; He gnashes at me with his teeth; my enemy looks at me with daggers in his eyes.
- Job 19:11His anger burns against me, and He considers me among His enemies.
- Job 30:21You have turned on me cruelly; You attack me with the might of Your hand.
- Job 31:35O, that I had someone to hear me! Look, here is my signature, let Shaddai answer me, let the accuser write the indictment!
- Job 33:10Yet, He has found fault with me; He considers me His enemy.
- 1 Samuel 28:16Samuel said, “So why ask me, since Adonai has turned away from you and become your adversary?
- Lamentations 2:5My Lord is like an enemy. He has swallowed up Israel. He swallowed up all her citadels, destroyed her fortifications and multiplied mourning and moaning for 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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