Job 13:24
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, And holdest me for thine enemy?
American Standard Version
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 harass a driven leaf? And wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
Cross References
1 Samuel 28:16And Samuel said, Wherefore then dost thou ask of me, seeing Jehovah is departed from thee, and is become thine adversary?
Job 10:16And if [my head] exalt itself, thou huntest me as a lion; And again thou showest thyself marvellous upon me.
Job 16:9He hath torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me; He hath gnashed upon me with his teeth: Mine adversary sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
Job 29:2Oh that I were as in the months of old, As in the days when God watched over me;
Job 31:35Oh that I had one to hear me! (Lo, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me); And [that I had] the indictment which mine adversary hath written!
Psalms 10:1Why standest thou afar off, O Jehovah? Why hidest thou 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 →