Job 13:24
Lammah (why) hidest Thou Thy face, 1 and holdest me for Thine enemy? 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?
In Context
23How many are mine avonot and chatta'ot? 1 Make me to know my peysha and my chattat. 1
Cross References
1 Samuel 28:16Then said Shmuel, Why then dost thou ask of me, seeing Hashem is turned away from thee, and is become thine adversary?
Job 10:16For if my head is held high, Thou stalkest me like a fierce lion, 1 and ever Thou displayest Thy awesome power against me. 1
Job 16:9He teareth me in his wrath, who warreth against me; 1 He gnasheth upon me with His shinayim (teeth); 1 mine adversary sharpeneth His eyes against me. 1
Job 29:2Oh that I were as in months past, 1 as in the days when Eloah was shomer over me; 1
Job 31:35Oh that one would hear me! 1 See, my tav [signature], that Shaddai would answer me, 1 and that mine adversary had written a sefer [of indictment]; 1
Psalms 10:1Why standest Thou afar off, Hashem? 1 Why hidest Thou Thyself in times of tzoros? 1
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 →