Job 13:24
Why do you conceal your face and consider me to be your enemy?
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?
In Context
23How many iniquities and sins do I have? Reveal my crimes and offenses to me.
25Against a leaf, which is carried away by the wind, you reveal your power, and you pursue dry straw.
Cross References
1 Samuel 28:16And Samuel said, “Why do you question me, though the Lord has withdrawn from you, and has crossed over to your rival?
Job 10:16And because of pride, you will seize me like a lioness, and having returned, you torment me to an extraordinary degree.
Job 16:9My wrinkles bear witness against me, and a liar rises up against my face, contradicting me.
Job 29:2Who will grant to me that I might be as I was in former months, according to the days when God kept watch over me?
Job 31:35then, would he grant me a hearing, so that the Almighty would listen to my desire, and he who judges would himself write a book,
Psalms 10:1Unto the end. A Psalm of David.
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 →