Job 13:24
Wherefore hide you your face, and hold me for yours enemy?
Updated King James Version
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? make me to know my transgression and my sin.
25Will you break a leaf driven back and forth? and will you pursue the dry stubble?
Cross References
1 Samuel 28:16Then said Samuel, Wherefore then do you ask of me, seeing the LORD is departed from you, and is become yours enemy?
Job 10:16For it increases. You hunt me as a fierce lion: and again you show yourself marvellous upon me.
Job 16:9He tears me in his wrath, who hates me: he gnashes upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpens his eyes upon me.
Job 29:2Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;
Job 31:35Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.
Psalms 10:1Why stand you far off, O LORD? why hide you 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 →