Job 13:24
Why do you hide your face, and consider me your enemy?
World English 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? Make me know my disobedience and my sin.
25Will you harass a driven leaf? Will you pursue the dry stubble?
Cross References
1 Samuel 28:16Samuel said, “Why then do you ask me, since the LORD has departed from you and has become your adversary?
Job 10:16If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. Again you show yourself powerful to me.
Job 16:9He has torn me in his wrath and persecuted me. He has gnashed on me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes on me.
Job 29:2“Oh that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me;
Job 31:35oh that I had one to hear me! Behold, here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me! Let the accuser write my indictment!
Psalms 10:1Why do you stand far off, LORD? Why do you hide yourself 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 →