Job 13:24

Why hidest thou thy face, and deemest me thine enemy?

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King James Version

Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?

In Context

23How great sins and wickednesses have I? (or How many sins and wickednesses have I?) Show thou to me my felonies, and my trespasses.

25Thou showest thy might against a leaf, that is ravished away with the wind; and thou pursuest dry stubble.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 28:16And Samuel said, What askest thou me, when God hath gone away from thee, and hath passed to thine enemy? (And Samuel said, Why askest thou me, when God hath gone away from thee, and hath become thy enemy?)

Job 10:16And if I raise up mine head for pride, thou shalt take me as a lioness; and thou turnest again, and tormentest me wonderfully. (And if I raise up my head in pride, then thou shalt take hold of me like a lioness; and thou shalt turn, and torment me with wonders, or miracles.)

Job 16:9He gathered together his strong vengeance in me, and he menaced me, and he gnashed against me with his teeth; mine enemy hath beheld me with fearedful eyes. (He gathered together his strong vengeance against me, and he threatened me, and he gnashed against me with his teeth; my enemy hath looked at me with eyes full of hatred.)

Job 29:2Who giveth to me, that I be beside the eld months, by the days in which God kept me? (Who giveth to me, that once more I be, like in the months gone by, yea, those days in which God looked after me?)

Job 31:35who giveth then an helper to me, that Almighty God hear my desire? that he that deemeth, write a book, ( then who shall be my helper? my only desire is that Almighty God would listen to me. And if my adversary hath written a book against me,)

Psalms 10:1Lord, why hast thou gone far away? thou despisest us in covenable times in tribulation. (Lord, why hast thou gone so far away? despisest thou us in our time 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 →

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