Job 13:24
Why do thou hide thy face, and reckon me for thine enemy?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?
In Context
23How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me to know my transgression and my sin.
25Will thou harass a driven leaf? And will thou pursue the dry stubble?
Cross References
1 Samuel 28:16And Samuel said, Why then do thou ask of me, since LORD departed from thee, and has become thine adversary?
Job 10:16And if [my head] exalts itself, thou hunt me as a lion. And again thou show thyself marvelous upon me.
Job 16:9He has torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me. He has gnashed upon me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes upon me.
Job 29:2O that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me,
Job 31:35O that I had someone to hear me (Lo, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me), and [that I had] the indictment which my adversary has written!
Psalms 10:1Why do thou stand afar off, O LORD? Why do thou hide thyself in times of trouble?
Matthew Henry on Job 13:24-28
23 How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin. 24 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. 27 Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet. 28 And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a… Read the whole commentary →