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

and will say unto God: O do not condemn me; but show me the cause, wherefore thou contendest so with me.

"Oh that I were as I was in the months by past, and in the days when God preserved me;

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

Why standest thou so far off, O LORD, and hidest thy face in the needful time of trouble?

{To the Chanter, a Psalm of David} How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? Forever? How long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

Wherefore hidest thou thy face? Wilt thou clean forget our misery and oppression?

I called to remembrance my song in the night, I communed with mine own heart, and sought out my spirit.

LORD, why abhorrest thou my soul, and hidest thou thy face from me?

Thus I wait upon the LORD that hath turned his face from the house of Jacob, and I look unto him.

Holdest me

He is angry at me, he hateth me, and gnasheth upon me with his teeth. Mine enemy scowleth upon me with his eyes.

His wrath is kindled against me; he taketh me, as though I were his enemy.

Thou art become mine enemy, and with thy violent hand thou takest part against me.

O that I had one which would hear me. Lo, this is my cause: Let the almighty give me answer, and let him that is my contrary party, sue me with libel.

But lo, he hath picked a quarrel against me, and taketh me for his enemy:

Then said Samuel, "Wherefore dost thou ask of me? While the LORD is gone from thee and is thine enemy,

{He} The LORD is become like as it were an enemy: he hath cast down Israel and all his places. Yea, all his strongholds hath he destroyed, and filled the daughter of Judah with much sorrow and heaviness.

And count him not as an enemy: but warn him as a brother.

General references

Joseph said unto them, "That is it that I said unto you, that ye are surely spies.