Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

Why do thou hide thy face, and reckon me for thine enemy?

New American Standard Bible

“Why do You hide Your face
And consider me Your enemy?

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

Why do You hide Your face
and consider me Your enemy?

International Standard Version

Why do you hide your face and regard me as your enemy?

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


“Why do You hide Your face [as if offended]
And consider me Your enemy?

Bible in Basic English

Why is your face veiled from me, as if I was numbered among your haters?

Darby Translation

Wherefore dost thou hide thy face, and countest me for thine enemy?

Julia Smith Translation

Why wilt thou hide thy face, and reckon me for an enemy to thee?

King James 2000

Why hide you your face, and hold me for your enemy?

Lexham Expanded Bible

Why do you hide your face and count me as your enemy?

Modern King James verseion

Why do You hide Your face, and hold me for Your enemy?

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

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

NET Bible

Why do you hide your face and regard me as your enemy?

New Heart English Bible

Why hide you your face, and hold me for your enemy?

The Emphasized Bible

Wherefore, thy face, shouldst thou hide? Or count me, as an enemy to thee?

Webster

Why hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thy enemy?

World English Bible

Why hide you your face, and hold me for your enemy?

Youngs Literal Translation

Why dost Thou hide Thy face? And reckonest me for an enemy to Thee?

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
סתר 
Cathar 
Usage: 81

thou thy face
פּנים 
Paniym 
Usage: 2119

Context Readings

Job Argues His Case With God

23 How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me to know my transgression and my sin. 24 Why do thou hide thy face, and reckon me for thine enemy? 25 Will thou harass a driven leaf? And will thou pursue the dry stubble?



Cross References

Job 19:11

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

Lamentations 2:5

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.

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 perverse generation, sons in whom is no faithfulness.

Job 33:10

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

Psalm 13:1

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

Isaiah 8:17

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.

Psalm 44:24

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

Psalm 88:14

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

1 Samuel 28:16

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

Job 10:2

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

Job 16:9

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.

Job 29:2-3

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

Job 30:21

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

Job 31:35

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!

Psalm 10:1

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

Psalm 77:6-9

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

2 Thessalonians 3:15

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

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