Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

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?

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?

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 great are my misdeeds and sins? Let me know my transgressions and offenses. 24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy? 25 Wilt thou be so cruel and extreme unto a flying leaf, and follow upon dry stubble?



Cross References

Job 19:11

His wrath is kindled against me; he taketh me, as though I were his enemy.

Lamentations 2:5

{He} The LORD is become like as it were an enemy: he hath cast down Israel and all his places. Yea, all his strongholds hath he destroyed, and filled the daughter of Judah with much sorrow and heaviness.

Deuteronomy 32:20

And he said, 'I will hide my face from them and will see what their end shall be. For they are a froward generation, and children in whom is no faith.

Job 33:10

But lo, he hath picked a quarrel against me, and taketh me for his enemy:

Psalm 13:1

{To the Chanter, a Psalm of David} How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? Forever? How long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

Isaiah 8:17

Thus I wait upon the LORD that hath turned his face from the house of Jacob, and I look unto him.

Psalm 44:24

Wherefore hidest thou thy face? Wilt thou clean forget our misery and oppression?

Psalm 88:14

LORD, why abhorrest thou my soul, and hidest thou thy face from me?

1 Samuel 28:16

Then said Samuel, "Wherefore dost thou ask of me? While the LORD is gone from thee and is thine enemy,

Job 10:2

and will say unto God: O do not condemn me; but show me the cause, wherefore thou contendest so with me.

Job 16:9

He is angry at me, he hateth me, and gnasheth upon me with his teeth. Mine enemy scowleth upon me with his eyes.

Job 29:2-3

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

Job 30:21

Thou art become mine enemy, and with thy violent hand thou takest part against me.

Job 31:35

O that I had one which would hear me. Lo, this is my cause: Let the almighty give me answer, and let him that is my contrary party, sue me with libel.

Psalm 10:1

Why standest thou so far off, O LORD, and hidest thy face in the needful time of trouble?

Psalm 77:6-9

I called to remembrance my song in the night, I communed with mine own heart, and sought out my spirit.

2 Thessalonians 3:15

And count him not as an enemy: but warn him as a brother.

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