Job 13:24

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Summary

Job 13:24

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

Hidest thou

Holdest me

General references

Genesis 42:14

Bible References

Hidest thou

I will say to God, Do not condemn me. Show me why thou contend with me.

O that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me,

And he said, I will hide my face from them. I will see what their end shall be. For they are a very perverse generation, sons in whom is no faithfulness.

Why do thou stand afar off, O LORD? Why do thou hide thyself in times of trouble?

How long, O LORD? Will thou forget me forever? How long will thou hide thy face from me?

Why do thou hide thy face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?

I call to remembrance my song in the night. I commune with my own heart, and my spirit makes diligent search.

LORD, why do thou cast off my soul? Why do thou hide thy face from me?

And I will wait for LORD, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will {be a man who has trusted (LXX/NT)} in him.

Holdest me

He has torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me. He has gnashed upon me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes upon me.

He has also kindled his wrath against me. And he considers me to him as his adversaries.

Thou have turned to be cruel to me. With the might of thy hand thou persecute me.

O that I had someone to hear me (Lo, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me), and [that I had] the indictment which my adversary has written!

[Thou say,] Behold, he finds occasions against me. He counts me for his enemy.

And Samuel said, Why then do thou ask of me, since LORD departed from thee, and has become thine adversary?

LORD has become as an enemy. He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces. He has destroyed his strongholds. And he has multiplied mourning and lamentation in the daughter of Judah.

And yet do not regard him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

General references

And Joseph said to them, This is that which I spoke to you, saying, Ye are spies.