Job 13:24
Why do You hide Your face? And reckon me for an enemy to You?
Literal Standard 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? Let me know my transgression and my sin.
25Do You terrify a leaf driven away? And do You pursue the dry stubble?
Cross References
1 Samuel 28:16And Samuel says, “And why do you ask me, and YHWH has turned aside from you, and is your enemy?
Job 10:16And it rises—as a lion You hunt me. And You turn back—You show Yourself wonderful in me.
Job 16:9His anger has torn, and He hates me, || He has gnashed at me with His teeth, || My adversary sharpens His eyes for me.
Job 29:2“Who makes me as [in] months past, || As [in] the days of God’s preserving me?
Job 31:35Who gives to me a hearing? Behold, my mark. The Mighty One answers me, || And my adversary has written a bill.
Psalms 10:1Why, YHWH, do You stand at a distance? Do You hide in times of adversity?
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 →