Parallel Verses

American Standard Version

Wherefore hidest thou thy face, And holdest 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?

A Conservative Version

Why do thou hide thy face, and reckon 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 mine iniquities and sins? Make me to know my transgression and my sin. 24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, And holdest me for thine enemy? 25 Wilt thou harass a driven leaf? And wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?

Cross References

Job 19:11

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

Lamentations 2:5

The Lord is become as an enemy, he hath swallowed up Israel; He hath swallowed up all her palaces, he hath destroyed his strongholds; And he hath multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.

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, Children in whom is no faithfulness.

Job 33:10

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

Psalm 13:1

How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou forget me for ever? How long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

Isaiah 8:17

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

Psalm 44:24

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

Psalm 88:14

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

1 Samuel 28:16

And Samuel said, Wherefore then dost thou ask of me, seeing Jehovah is departed from thee, and is become thine adversary?

Job 10:2

I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; Show me wherefore thou contendest with me.

Job 16:9

He hath torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me; He hath gnashed upon me with his teeth: Mine adversary sharpeneth his eyes upon me.

Job 29:2-3

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

Job 30:21

Thou art turned to be cruel to me; With the might of thy hand thou persecutest me.

Job 31:35

Oh that I had one to hear me! (Lo, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me); And that I had the indictment which mine adversary hath written!

Psalm 10:1

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

Psalm 77:6-9

I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart; And my spirit maketh diligent search.

2 Thessalonians 3:15

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

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