Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

Why do You hide 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?

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 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 my transgressions and my sin. 24 Why do You hide Your face, and hold me for Your enemy? 25 Will You terrify a leaf driven to and fro? Will You pursue the dry stubble?



Cross References

Job 19:11

He has also kindled His wrath against me, and to Himself He counts me as His enemy.

Lamentations 2:5

Jehovah was like an enemy; He swallowed up Israel; He has swallowed up all her palaces, and destroyed His strongholds. And He has increased mourning and weeping 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

behold, He finds reasons to be 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 Jehovah? Forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?

Isaiah 8:17

And I will wait on Jehovah, who hides His face from the house of Jacob; and I will look for Him.

Psalm 44:24

Why do You hide Your face, and forget our affliction and distress?

Psalm 88:14

O Jehovah, why do You cast off my soul? Why do You hide Your face from me?

1 Samuel 28:16

And Samuel said, Why then do you ask me, since Jehovah has left you and has become your enemy?

Job 10:2

I will say to God, Do not condemn me; make me know why You contend with me.

Job 16:9

His anger has torn and hated me; He gnashes on me with His teeth; my enemy sharpens his eyes at me;

Job 29:2-3

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

Job 30:21

You changed to be cruel to me; with Your mighty hand You assault me.

Job 31:35

Oh that I had one to hear me! Behold my mark. Let the Almighty answer me, and my Accuser write an indictment.

Psalm 10:1

Why do You stand afar off, O Jehovah? Will You hide in times of trouble?

Psalm 77:6-9

I remember my song in the night; I speak with my own heart, and my spirit carefully searches.

2 Thessalonians 3:15

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

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