Job 13:24
22 Then call me, and I will answer, or let me speak, and You can reply.
23 How many are my iniquities and sins? Reveal to me my transgression and sin.
Why do You hide Your face and consider me as Your enemy?
25 Would You frighten a windblown leaf? Would You chase after dry chaff?
26 For You record bitter accusations against me and bequeath to me the iniquities of my youth.
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- BSB
- Why do You hide Your face and consider me as Your enemy?
- KJV
- Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?
- WEB
- Why do you hide your face, and consider me your enemy?
- ASV
- Wherefore hidest thou thy face, And holdest me for thine enemy?
- DARBY
- Wherefore dost thou hide thy face, and countest me for thine enemy?
- BLB
- Why do You hide Your face and consider me as an enemy unto You?
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- Hvorfor skjuler du ditt ansikt
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Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 19:11
His anger burns against me, and He counts me among His enemies.
Read in contextLamentations 2:5
The 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 the Daughter of Judah.
Read in contextPsalms 13:1
How long, O LORD? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?
Read in contextIsaiah 8:17
I will wait for the LORD, who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob. I will put my trust in Him.
Read in contextJob 33:10
Yet God finds occasions against me; He counts me as His enemy.
Read in contextPsalms 88:14
Why, O LORD, do You reject me? Why do You hide Your face from me?
Read in contextDeuteronomy 32:20
He said: “I will hide My face from them; I will see what will be their end. For they are a perverse generation— children of unfaithfulness.
Read in contextPsalms 44:24
Why do You hide Your face and forget our affliction and oppression?
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