Parallel Verses

Lexham Expanded Bible

Why do you hide your face and count me as 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?

King James 2000

Why hide you your face, and hold me for 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 known to me my transgression and my sin. 24 Why do you hide your face and count me as your enemy? 25 Will you terrify a blown leaf? And will you pursue dry stubble?

Cross References

Job 19:11

and he has kindled his wrath against me, and {he has counted me as one of his foes}.

Lamentations 2:5

The Lord has become like an enemy; he has destroyed Israel; he has destroyed all its citadel fortresses; he has ruined all its fortifications and multiplied lamentation and mourning in the daughter of Judah.

Deuteronomy 32:20

So he said, 'I will hide my face from them; I will see what [will be] their end, for they [are] a generation of perversity, {children in whom there is no faithfulness}.

Job 33:10

Look, he finds fault against me; he reckons me as his enemy;

Psalm 13:1

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

Isaiah 8:17

And I will wait for Yahweh, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will await him.

Psalm 44:24

Why do you hide your face? [Have] you forgotten our misery and our oppression?

Psalm 88:14

Why do you reject my soul, O Yahweh? [Why] do you hide your face from me?

1 Samuel 28:16

Then Samuel said, "Why do you ask me, since Yahweh has turned away from you and has become your enemy?

Job 10:2

I will say to God, 'You should not condemn me; let me know why you contend [against] me.

Job 16:9

His wrath has torn, and he has been hostile toward me; he gnashed at me with his teeth. My foe sharpens his eyes against me.

Job 29:2-3

"{O that I were} as [in] the months before, as [in] the days [when] God watched over me,

Job 30:21

You have turned cruel to me; you persecute me with your hand's might.

Job 31:35

{O that} {I had} someone hearing me! Here is my signature; let Shaddai answer me! {As for} [the] written communication [that] {my adversary} has written,

Psalm 10:1

Why, O Yahweh, do you stand far off? [Why] do you hide during times of distress?

Psalm 77:6-9

I remember my song in the night. With my heart I meditate, and my spirit searches [to understand].

2 Thessalonians 3:15

And do not consider [him] as an enemy, but admonish [him] as a brother.

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