Job 13:24
Wherefore, thy face, shouldst thou hide? Or count me, as an enemy to thee?
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?
In Context
23How many are mine iniquities and sins? My transgression and my sin, let me know!
25A driven leaf, wilt thou cause to tremble? Or, dry stubble, wilt thou pursue?
Cross References
1 Samuel 28:16Then said Samuel, Wherefore, then, shouldst thou ask me,—when, Yahweh, hath turned away from thee, and hath come to be with thy neighbour?
Job 10:16When it is lifted up, like a howling lion, thou dost hunt me, Then again thou dost shew thyself marvellous against me.
Job 16:9His anger, hath torn and persecuted me, He hath gnashed upon me with his teeth, Mine adversary, hath sharpened his eyes for me.
Job 29:2Oh that it were with me as in the months of old, as in the days, when, GOD, used to watch over me;
Job 31:35Oh that I had one to hear me, Lo! my crossmark, May, the Almighty, answer me! And would that, a book, mine opponent had written!
Psalms 10:1Wherefore, O Yahweh, shouldst thou stand afar off? [Wherefore] hide thyself, in times of destitution?
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 →