Job 13:24
Why ◄do you refuse to be friendly with/have you abandoned► me [IDM]? Why do you ◄act toward me as though I am/consider me to be► your enemy?
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?
In Context
23What have I done that is wrong? What sins have I committed? Show me how I have disobeyed you.
Cross References
1 Samuel 28:16Samuel said, “Yahweh has abandoned you and has become your enemy. So why do you ask me what you should do? [RHQ]
Job 10:16And if I am proud, you hunt me like [SIM] a lion hunts for some animal to kill, and you act powerfully to injure me.
Job 16:9Because God is very angry with me and hates me, it is as though he is a wild animal that [MET] has gnashed his teeth at me because he is my enemy.
Job 29:2“I wish/desire that I could be like I was previously, during the years when God took care of me.
Job 31:35“I wish/desire that there was someone who would hear what I am saying! I solemnly declare that all that I have said is true. I wish that those who oppose me would write down on a scroll the evil things that they say that I did.
Psalms 10:1Yahweh, ◄why are you far away from us?/it seems that you are far away from us.► [RHQ] Why do you not pay attention when we have troubles [RHQ]?
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 →