Job 13:24
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and takest me for thine enemie?
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?
In Context
23Howe many are mine iniquities and sinnes? shewe me my rebellion, and my sinne.
25Wilt thou breake a leafe driuen to and from? and wilt thou pursue the drie stubble?
Cross References
1 Samuel 28:16Then said Samuel, Wherefore then doest thou aske of me, seeing the Lord is gone from thee, and is thine enemie?
Job 10:16But let it increase: hunt thou me as a lyon: returne and shew thy selfe marueilous vpon me.
Job 16:9His wrath hath torne me, and hee hateth me, and gnasheth vpon mee with his teeth: mine enemie hath sharpened his eyes against me.
Job 29:2Oh that I were as in times past, when God preserued me!
Job 31:35Oh that I had some to heare me! beholde my signe that the Almightie will witnesse for me: though mine aduersary should write a booke against me,
Psalms 10:1Why standest thou farre off, O Lord, and hidest thee in due time, euen in affliction?
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 →