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Job Prepares His Case

Job 13:24

In 11 translations

BSB
Why do You hide Your face and consider me as Your enemy?
KJV
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?
WEB
Why do you hide your face, and consider me your enemy?
ASV
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, And holdest me for thine enemy?
LSV
Why do You hide Your face? And reckon me for an enemy to You?
YLT
Why dost Thou hide Thy face? And reckonest me for an enemy to Thee?
DBY
Wherefore dost thou hide thy face, and countest me for thine enemy?
DRC
Why hidest thou thy face, and thinkest me thy enemy?
GNV
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and takest me for thine enemie?
JPS
Wherefore hidest Thou Thy face, and holdest me for Thine enemy?
LXXE
Wherefore hidest thou thyself from me, and deemest me thine enemy?

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Original-language editions

WLC
לָֽמָּה־פָנֶ֥יךָ תַסְתִּ֑יר וְתַחְשְׁבֵ֖נִי לְאוֹיֵ֣ב לָֽךְ׃
LXX-Br
Διατί ἀπʼ ἐμοῦ κρύπτῃ, ἥγησαι δέ με ὑπεναντίον σοι;

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◆ Job's Trial

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Job 19:11His anger burns against me, and He counts me among His enemies.
  • Psalms 13:1How long, O LORD? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?
  • Lamentations 2:5The Lord is like an enemy; He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces and destroyed her strongholds. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation for the Daughter of Judah.
  • Psalms 88:14Why, O LORD, do You reject me? Why do You hide Your face from me?
  • Job 33:10Yet God finds occasions against me; He counts me as His enemy.
  • Psalms 44:24Why do You hide Your face and forget our affliction and oppression?
  • Isaiah 8:17I will wait for the LORD, who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob. I will put my trust in Him.
  • Deuteronomy 32:20He said: “I will hide My face from them; I will see what will be their end. For they are a perverse generation— children of unfaithfulness.
  • Job 10:2I will say to God: Do not condemn me! Let me know why You prosecute me.
  • 1 Samuel 28:16“Why do you consult me,” asked Samuel, “since the LORD has turned away from you and become your enemy?
  • Psalms 77:6–9At night I remembered my song; in my heart I mused, and my spirit pondered: “Will the Lord spurn us forever and never show His favor again? Is His loving devotion gone forever? Has His promise failed for all time? Has…
  • 2 Thessalonians 3:15Yet do not regard him as an enemy, but warn him as a brother.
  • Job 30:21You have ruthlessly turned on me; You oppose me with Your strong hand.
  • Job 16:9His anger has torn me and opposed me; He gnashes His teeth at me. My adversary pierces me with His eyes.
  • Job 31:35(Oh, that I had one to hear me! Here is my signature. Let the Almighty answer me; let my accuser compose an indictment.
  • Job 29:2–3“How I long for the months gone by, for the days when God watched over me, when His lamp shone above my head, and by His light I walked through the darkness,

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