Job 13:24
Why do You hide Your face and consider me as Your enemy?
Berean Standard Bible
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? Reveal to me my transgression and sin.
25Would You frighten a windblown leaf? Would You chase after dry chaff?
Cross References
1 Samuel 28:16“Why do you consult me,” asked Samuel, “since the LORD has turned away from you and become your enemy?
Job 10:16Should I hold my head high, You would hunt me like a lion, and again display Your power against me.
Job 16:9His anger has torn me and opposed me; He gnashes His teeth at me. My adversary pierces me with His eyes.
Job 29:2“How I long for the months gone by, for the days when God watched over me,
Job 31:35(Oh, that I had one to hear me! Here is my signature. Let the Almighty answer me; let my accuser compose an indictment.
Psalms 10:1Why, O LORD, do You stand far off? Why do You hide 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 →