Job 13:24
Why do you hide your face from me 1 and treat me like your enemy? 1
Unlocked Literal 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? 1 Let me know my transgression and my sin. 1
25Will you persecute a driven leaf? 1 Will you pursue dry stubble? 1
Cross References
1 Samuel 28:16Samuel said, “What then do you ask me, since Yahweh has left you, and he has become your enemy?
Job 10:16If my head were lifted up, 1 you would stalk me like a lion; 1 and again you would show yourself with marvellous acts of power against me. 1
Job 16:9God has torn me in his wrath and persecuted me; 1 He grinds his teeth in rage; 1 my enemy fastens his eyes on me as he tears me apart. 1
Job 29:2“Oh, that I were as I was in the past months 1 when God cared for me, 1
Job 31:35Oh, if only I had someone to hear me! 1 See, here is my signature; let the Almighty answer me! 1 If only I had the indictment that my opponent has written! 1
Psalms 10:1Why, Yahweh, do you stand far off? 1 Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble? 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 →