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, 'You should not condemn me; let me know why you contend [against] me.

"{O that I were} as [in] the months before, as [in] the days [when] God watched over me,

So he said, 'I will hide my face from them; I will see what [will be] their end, for they [are] a generation of perversity, {children in whom there is no faithfulness}.

Why, O Yahweh, do you stand far off? [Why] do you hide during times of distress?

How long, O Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?

Why do you hide your face? [Have] you forgotten our misery and our oppression?

I remember my song in the night. With my heart I meditate, and my spirit searches [to understand].

Why do you reject my soul, O Yahweh? [Why] do you hide your face from me?

And I will wait for Yahweh, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will await him.

Holdest me

His wrath has torn, and he has been hostile toward me; he gnashed at me with his teeth. My foe sharpens his eyes against me.

and he has kindled his wrath against me, and {he has counted me as one of his foes}.

You have turned cruel to me; you persecute me with your hand's might.

{O that} {I had} someone hearing me! Here is my signature; let Shaddai answer me! {As for} [the] written communication [that] {my adversary} has written,

Look, he finds fault against me; he reckons me as his enemy;

Then Samuel said, "Why do you ask me, since Yahweh has turned away from you and has become your enemy?

The Lord has become like an enemy; he has destroyed Israel; he has destroyed all its citadel fortresses; he has ruined all its fortifications and multiplied lamentation and mourning in the daughter of Judah.

And do not consider [him] as an enemy, but admonish [him] as a brother.

General references

But Joseph said to them, "It [is] what I said to you--you [are] spies.