Job 13:24 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁴Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?

Job 13:24 —

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Cross-References

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Job 19:11
He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.
Lamentations 2:5
The Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
Psalms 13:1
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
Isaiah 8:17
And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
Psalms 44:24
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?

Topics

Depravity of Man Guilt Popular Sins Rebellion Sin

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 23-28)

Here, I. Job enquires after his sins, and begs to have them discovered to him. He looks up to God, and asks him what was the number of them (How many are my iniquities?) and what were the particulars of them: Make me to know my transgressions, Job 13:23. His friends were ready enough to tell him how numerous and how heinous they were, Job 22:5. “But, Lord,” says he, “let me know them from thee; fo…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 24)

24. hidest ... face--a figure from the gloomy impression caused by the sudden clouding over of the sun. enemy--God treated Job as an enemy who must be robbed of power by ceaseless sufferings (Job 7:17, 21).