Job 13:24
Why is your face veiled from me, as if I was numbered among your haters?
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?
In Context
23What is the number of my evil-doings and my sins? give me knowledge of them.
Cross References
1 Samuel 28:16And Samuel said, Why do you put your questions to me, seeing that God has gone away from you and is on the side of him who is against you?
Job 10:16And that if there was cause for pride, you would go after me like a lion; and again put out your wonders against me:
Job 16:9I am broken by his wrath, and his hate has gone after me; he has made his teeth sharp against me: my haters are looking on me with cruel eyes;
Job 29:2If only I might again be as I was in the months which are past, in the days when God was watching over me!
Job 31:35If only God would give ear to me, and the Ruler of all would give me an answer! or if what he has against me had been put in writing!
Psalms 10:1Why do you keep far away, O Lord? why are you not to be seen 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 →