Parallel Verses

King James 2000

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

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?

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 know my transgression and my sin. 24 Why hide you your face, and hold me for your enemy? 25 Will you break a leaf driven to and fro? and will you pursue the dry stubble?



Cross References

Job 19:11

He has also kindled his wrath against me, and he counts me unto him as one of his enemies.

Lamentations 2:5

The Lord was as an enemy: he has swallowed up Israel, he has swallowed up all her palaces: he has destroyed his strongholds, and has increased 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 faith.

Job 33:10

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

Psalm 13:1

[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] How long will you forget me, O LORD? forever? how long will you hide your face from me?

Isaiah 8:17

And I will wait upon the LORD, that hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will hope in him.

Psalm 44:24

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

Psalm 88:14

LORD, why cast you off my soul? why hide you your face from me?

1 Samuel 28:16

Then said Samuel, Why then do you ask of me, seeing the LORD has departed from you, and has become your enemy?

Job 10:2

I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; show me why you contend with me.

Job 16:9

He tears me in his wrath, who hates me: he gnashes upon me with his teeth; my enemy sharpens his eyes upon me.

Job 29:2-3

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

Job 30:21

You have become cruel to me: with your strong hand you oppose yourself against me.

Job 31:35

Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that my adversary had written a book.

Psalm 10:1

Why stand you afar off, O LORD? why hide you yourself 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 made diligent search.

2 Thessalonians 3:15

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

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