Parallel Verses

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?

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 my sins? Make me know my transgression and my sin. 24 “Why do You hide Your face
And consider me Your enemy?
25 Will you frighten a driven leaf and pursue dry chaff?

Cross References

Job 19:11

He has kindled his wrath against me and counts me as his adversary.

Lamentations 2:5

The Lord has become like an enemy; he has swallowed up Israel; he has swallowed up all its palaces; he has laid in ruins its strongholds, and he has 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 will be, For they are a perverse generation, children in whom is no faithfulness.

Job 33:10

Behold, he finds occasions against me, he counts me as his enemy,

Psalm 13:1

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

Isaiah 8:17

I will wait for the LORD, who is hiding his face from the house of Jacob, and I will hope in him.

Psalm 44:24

Why do you hide your face? Why do you forget our affliction and oppression?

Psalm 88:14

O LORD, why do you cast my soul away? Why do you hide your face from me?

1 Samuel 28:16

And Samuel said, "Why then do you ask me, since the LORD has turned from you and become your enemy?

Job 10:2

I will say to God, Do not condemn me; let me know why you contend against me.

Job 16:9

He has torn me in his wrath and hated me; he has gnashed his teeth at me; my adversary sharpens his eyes against 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

You have turned cruel to me; with the might of your hand you persecute me.

Job 31:35

Oh, that I had one to hear me! (Here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me!) Oh, that I had the indictment written by my adversary!

Psalm 10:1

Why, O LORD, do you stand far away? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?

Psalm 77:6-9

I said,"Let me remember my song in the night; let me meditate in my heart." Then my spirit made a diligent search:

2 Thessalonians 3:15

Do not regard him as an enemy, but warn him as a brother.

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