Job 13:24
Wherefore dost thou hide thy face, and countest me for thine enemy?
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?
In Context
23How many are mine iniquities and sins? Make me to know my transgression and my sin.
25Wilt thou terrify a driven leaf? and wilt thou pursue dry stubble?
Cross References
1 Samuel 28:16And Samuel said, Why then dost thou inquire of me, seeing Jehovah is departed from thee, and is become thine enemy?
Job 10:16And it increaseth: thou huntest me as a fierce lion; and ever again thou shewest thy marvellous power upon me.
Job 16:9His anger teareth and pursueth me; he gnasheth with his teeth against me; [as] mine adversary he sharpeneth his eyes at me.
Job 29:2Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;
Job 31:35Oh that I had one to hear me! Behold my signature: let the Almighty answer me! And let mine opponent write an accusation!
Psalms 10:1Why, Jehovah, standest thou afar off? [Why] hidest thou thyself in times of distress?
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 →