Job 13:24
22 Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.
23 How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?
25 Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
26 For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- 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?
- ÅB
- Hvorfor skjuler du ditt åsyn og holder meg for din fiende?
- OTB
- Hvorfor skjuler du ditt ansikt
Og betrakter meg som din motstander? - B1930
- Hvorfor skjuler du ditt åsyn og holder mig for din fiende?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 19:11
He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.
Read in contextLamentations 2:5
The Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
Read in contextPsalms 13:1
How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
Read in contextIsaiah 8:17
And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
Read in contextJob 33:10
Behold, he findeth occasions against me, he counteth me for his enemy,
Read in contextPsalms 88:14
LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?
Read in contextDeuteronomy 32:20
And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith.
Read in contextPsalms 44:24
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
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