Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Why do you hide your face and consider me your enemy? New Living Translation Why do you turn away from me? Why do you treat me as your enemy? English Standard Version Why do you hide your face and count me as your enemy? Berean Study Bible Why do You hide Your face and consider me as Your enemy? King James Bible Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy? New King James Version Why do You hide Your face, And regard me as Your enemy? New American Standard Bible “Why do You hide Your face And consider me Your enemy? NASB 1995 "Why do You hide Your face And consider me Your enemy? NASB 1977 “Why dost Thou hide Thy face, And consider me Thine enemy? Amplified Bible “Why do You hide Your face [as if offended] And consider me Your enemy? Christian Standard Bible Why do you hide your face and consider me your enemy? Holman Christian Standard Bible Why do You hide Your face and consider me Your enemy? American Standard Version Wherefore hidest thou thy face, And holdest me for thine enemy? Aramaic Bible in Plain English Why do you turn your face from me and you consider me as an enemy to you? Brenton Septuagint Translation Wherefore hidest thou thyself from me, and deemest me thine enemy? Contemporary English Version Why have you turned your back and count me your enemy? Douay-Rheims Bible Why hidest thou thy face, and thinkest me thy enemy? English Revised Version Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy? Good News Translation Why do you avoid me? Why do you treat me like an enemy? GOD'S WORD® Translation Why do you hide your face [from me] and consider me your enemy? International Standard Version Why do you hide your face and regard me as your enemy? JPS Tanakh 1917 Wherefore hidest Thou Thy face, And holdest me for Thine enemy? Literal Standard Version Why do You hide Your face? And reckon me for an enemy to You? NET Bible Why do you hide your face and regard me as your enemy? New Heart English Bible Why hide you your face, and hold me for your enemy? World English Bible Why hide you your face, and hold me for your enemy? Young's Literal Translation Why dost Thou hide Thy face? And reckonest me for an enemy to Thee? Additional Translations ... Context Job Reproves His Friends…23How many are my iniquities and sins? Reveal to me my transgression and sin. 24Why do You hide Your face and consider me as Your enemy? 25Would You frighten a windblown leaf? Would You chase after dry chaff?… Cross References Job 16:9 His anger has torn me and opposed me; He gnashes His teeth at me. My adversary pierces me with His eyes. Job 19:11 His anger burns against me, and He counts me among His enemies. Job 19:22 Why do you persecute me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh? Job 33:10 Yet God finds occasions against me; He counts me as His enemy. Psalm 13:1 How long, O LORD? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me? Psalm 44:24 Why do You hide Your face and forget our affliction and oppression? Psalm 88:14 Why, O LORD, do You reject me? Why do You hide Your face from me? Isaiah 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. Lamentations 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. Treasury of Scripture Why hide you your face, and hold me for your enemy? hidest thou Job 10:2 I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me. Job 29:2,3 Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; … Deuteronomy 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. holdest me Job 16:9 He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me. Job 19:11 He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies. Job 30:21 Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.
Verse 24. - Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy? What is thy reason for withdrawing from me the light of thy countenance, and behaving towards me as though thou weft mine enemy? Job does not believe God to be his enemy. He knows that God will one day be his Salvation (ver. 16); but he recognizes a present alienation, and desires to be made acquainted with the cause of it. Parallel Commentaries ... Lexicon Whyלָֽמָּה־ (lām·māh-) Interrogative Strong's Hebrew 4100: What?, what!, indefinitely what do You hide תַסְתִּ֑יר (ṯas·tîr) Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - second person masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 5641: To hide, conceal Your face פָנֶ֥יךָ (p̄ā·ne·ḵā) Noun - common plural construct | second person masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 6440: The face and consider me וְתַחְשְׁבֵ֖נִי (wə·ṯaḥ·šə·ḇê·nî) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect - second person masculine singular | first person common singular Strong's Hebrew 2803: To think, account as Your לָֽךְ׃ (lāḵ) Preposition | second person feminine singular Strong's Hebrew enemy? לְאוֹיֵ֣ב (lə·’ō·w·yêḇ) Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 341: Hating, an adversary Jump to Previous Consider Count Countest Enemy Face Haters Hide Hidest Hold Holdest Numbered Reckonest Veiled WhereforeJump to Next Consider Count Countest Enemy Face Haters Hide Hidest Hold Holdest Numbered Reckonest Veiled WhereforeLinks Job 13:24 NIVJob 13:24 NLT Job 13:24 ESV Job 13:24 NASB Job 13:24 KJV Job 13:24 BibleApps.com Job 13:24 Biblia Paralela Job 13:24 Chinese Bible Job 13:24 French Bible Job 13:24 Clyx Quotations OT Poetry: Job 13:24 Why hide you your face and hold (Jb) |