Job 13 · Verse 24

Job 13:24

Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?
Job 13:24, King James Version

Job 13:24 in other translations

BSBWhy do You hide Your face and consider me as Your enemy?
WEBWhy do you hide your face, and consider me your enemy?
ASVWherefore hidest thou thy face, And holdest me for thine enemy?
YLTWhy dost Thou hide Thy face? And reckonest me for an enemy to Thee?
DARBYWherefore dost thou hide thy face, and countest me for thine enemy?
BBEWhy is your face veiled from me, as if I was numbered among your haters?
WebsterWhy hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thy enemy?

What does Job 13:24 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
24. hidest ... face--a figure from the gloomy impression caused by the sudden clouding over of the sun. enemy--God treated Job as an enemy who must be robbed of power by ceaseless sufferings (Job 7:17, 21).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face - Why is it that I no longer enjoy thy approbation? Holdest me for thine enemy? - Treatest me as if I were the vilest of sinners?

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 13:23-28

Job begs to have his sins discovered to him. A true penitent is willing to know the worst of himself; and we should all desire to know what our transgressions are, that we may confess them, and guard against them for the future. Job complains sorrowfully of God's severe dealings with him. Time does not wear out the guilt of sin. When God writes bitter things against us, his design is to make us bring forgotten sins…

Read the full comment on Job 13:23-28 →

Job 13:24 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

לָֽמָּה\־la.mah-<to> why?H4100
פָנֶ֥יךָfa.Nei.khaface yourH6440
תַסְתִּ֑ירtas.Tirdo you hideH5641
וְתַחְשְׁבֵ֖נִיve.tach.she.Ve.niand do you consider? meH2803
לְאוֹיֵ֣בle.'o.Yevto an enemyH341
לָֽךְ\׃Lakhof you

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 13:24

  • Job 19:11

    He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.

  • Lamentations 2:5

    The Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.

  • Psalms 13:1

    To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. How long wilt thou forget me, O Lord? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

  • Isaiah 8:17

    And I will wait upon the Lord, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.

  • Job 33:10

    Behold, he findeth occasions against me, he counteth me for his enemy,

  • Psalms 88:14

    Lord, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?

  • Deuteronomy 32:20

    And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith.

  • Psalms 44:24

    Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?

  • Psalms 10:1

    Why standest thou afar off, O Lord? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?

  • 2 Thessalonians 3:15

    Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

  • Job 29:2-3

    Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;

  • Psalms 77:6-9

    I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search. Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more? Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore? Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
hidest thou.
10:2; 29:2,3; De 32:20; Ps 10:1; 13:1; 44:24; 77:6-9; 88:14; Isa 8:17
holdest me.
16:9; 19:11; 30:21; 31:35; 33:10; 1Sa 28:16; La 2:5; 2Th 3:15

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Job 13:23

    How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.

  • Job 13:24

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

  • Job 13:25

    Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?

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Job 13:24 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
¿Por qué escondes tu rostro, y me cuentas por tu enemigo?
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Pourquoi caches-tu ta face, et me tiens-tu pour ton ennemi?
German
Elberfelder 1871
Warum verbirgst du dein Angesicht, und hältst mich für deinen Feind?
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Cur faciem tuam abscondis, et arbitraris me inimicum tuum?