Job 13:24

Why hidest thou thy face, and thinkest me thy enemy?

Douay-Rheims 1899

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 know my crimes and offences.

25Against a leaf, that is carried away with the wind, thou shewest thy power, and thou pursuest a dry straw.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 28:16And Samuel said: Why askest thou me, seeing the Lord has departed from thee, and is gone over to thy rival:

Job 10:16And for pride thou wilt take me as a lioness, and returning thou tormentest me wonderfully.

Job 16:9My wrinkles bear witness against me, and a false speaker riseth up against my face, contradicting me.

Job 29:2Who will grant me, that I might be according to the months past, according to the days in which God kept me?

Job 31:35Who would grant me a hearer, that the Almighty may hear my desire; and that he himself that judgeth would write a book,

Psalms 10:1Why, O Lord, hast thou retired afar off? why dost thou slight us in our wants, in the time 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 →

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