Job 13:24

Good News Translation

Why do you avoid me? Why do you treat me like an enemy?

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Why do you hide your faceand consider me your enemy?

Hebrew Names Version
Why hide you your face, And hold me for your enemy?

King James Version
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?

English Standard Version
Why do you hide your face and count me as your enemy?

New Century Version
Don't hide your face from me; don't think of me as your enemy.

New English Translation
Why do you hide your face and regard me as your enemy?

Amplified Bible
"Why do You hide Your face [as if offended] And consider me Your enemy?

New American Standard Bible
"Why do You hide Your face And consider me Your enemy?

World English Bible
Why hide you your face, And hold me for your enemy?

Geneva Bible (1587)
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and takest me for thine enemie?

Legacy Standard Bible
Why do You hide Your faceAnd think of me as Your enemy?

Berean Standard Bible
Why do You hide Your face and consider me as Your enemy?

Contemporary English Version
Why have you turned your back and count me your enemy?

Complete Jewish Bible
Why do you hide your face and think of me as your enemy?

Darby Translation
Wherefore dost thou hide thy face, and countest me for thine enemy?

Easy-to-Read Version
God, why do you avoid me and treat me like your enemy?

George Lamsa Translation
Wherefore dost thou hide thy face from me, and considerest me as thine enemy?

Lexham English Bible
Why do you hide your face and count me as your enemy?

Literal Translation
Why do You hide Your face and count me for Your enemy?

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Wherfore hydest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemye?

American Standard Version
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, And holdest me for thine enemy?

Bible in Basic English
Why is your face veiled from me, as if I was numbered among your haters?

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Wherefore hidest Thou Thy face, and holdest me for Thine enemy?

King James Version (1611)
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemie?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thyne enemie?

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Wherefore hidest thou thyself from me, and deemest me thine enemy?

English Revised Version
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Whi hidist thou thi face, and demest me thin enemy?

Update Bible Version
Why do you hide your face, And hold me for your enemy?

Webster's Bible Translation
Why hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thy enemy?

New King James Version
Why do You hide Your face, And regard me as Your enemy?

New Living Translation
Why do you turn away from me? Why do you treat me as your enemy?

New Life Bible
Why do You hide Your face, and think of me as one who hates You?

New Revised Standard
Why do you hide your face, and count me as your enemy?

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Wherefore, thy face, shouldst thou hide? Or count me, as an enemy to thee?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Why hidest thou thy face, and thinkest me thy enemy?

Revised Standard Version
Why dost thou hide thy face, and count me as thy enemy?

Young's Literal Translation
Why dost Thou hide Thy face? And reckonest me for an enemy to Thee?

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Why do You hide Your face And consider me Your enemy?

Contextual Overview

²³ What are my sins? What wrongs have I done? What crimes am I charged with? ²⁴ Why do you avoid me? Why do you treat me like an enemy? ²⁵ Are you trying to frighten me? I'm nothing but a leaf; you are attacking a piece of dry straw. ²⁶ You bring bitter charges against me, even for what I did when I was young. ²⁷ You bind chains on my feet; you watch every step I take, and even examine my footprints. ²⁸ As a result, I crumble like rotten wood, like a moth-eaten coat.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

hidest thou: Job 10:2, Job 29:2, Job 29:3, Deuteronomy 32:20, Psalms 10:1, Psalms 13:1, Psalms 44:24, Psalms 77:6-9, Psalms 88:14, Isaiah 8:17

holdest me: Job 16:9, Job 19:11, Job 30:21, Job 31:35, Job 33:10, 1 Samuel 28:16, Lamentations 2:5, 2 Thessalonians 3:15

Reciprocal: Genesis 42:14 - General Deuteronomy 31:17 - hide my face Deuteronomy 32:42 - revenges Deuteronomy 32:43 - avenge Job 7:21 - why dost Psalms 104:29 - hidest Jeremiah 30:14 - I

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Wherefore hidest thou thy face,.... Not from his cry, because of his sore and grievous afflictions, as Bar Tzemach; nor from helping and saving him from his troubles, as Sephorno; nor from looking on his right ways, as Jarchi; but from his person, withdrawing the manifestation of his face and favour; withholding the discoveries of his love; and denying him the light of his countenance, and sensible communion with him, and enjoyment of him, he had been indulged with; Job formerly had seen the face of God, enjoyed his presence, and walked in fellowship with him; but now he had withdrawn himself from him, and he knew not where to find him; see Job 23:2; a greater blessing cannot be had than the gracious presence of God; nothing gives more pleasure when enjoyed, and nothing more grievous to good men when it is withheld; oftentimes sin is the cause of it, but not always, as in this instance of Job; the end of the Lord in all his afflictions, both inward and outward, was to try his patience, his integrity, and faithfulness; but as Job was for the present ignorant of it, he desires to know the reason of this the Lord's behaviour towards him; as it is what all good men should do in the like circumstances, nothing being more afflicting and distressing to them, and even intolerable; see

Psalms 10:11; some think here is an allusion to the behaviour of judges towards such as were condemned by them, they were prejudiced against, and would neither hear nor see them; or to a rite and custom in former times, as Pineda observes, when judges, at the time of pronouncing sentence on a malefactor, used to draw a curtain between them; or to the covering of the face of the criminal, see Job 9:24;

and holdest me for thine enemy? Job had been an enemy to God, as all men are in a state of nature, yea, enmity itself, as is shown by their wicked works; but he was now reconciled unto God, the enmity of his heart was slain, and he had laid down his weapons of rebellion, and ceased committing hostilities against God, and was become subject to him and to his law, through the power of efficacious grace; a principle of love, which is the fruit of the spirit in regeneration, was implanted in him; and he was a true and sincere lover of God, one that feared him, and trusted in him; whose faith worked by love, and so appeared to be of the right kind; and therefore, since he was conscious to himself that he loved God with all his heart, loved his word, his ways, and worship, his people and all that belonged to him, it was cutting and grievous to him to be thought and accounted, or deal with, as an enemy to him; for so he interpreted his conduct towards him; as he afflicted him, he took it to be in anger and fury, and hot displeasure; and as he hid his face from him, he supposed it was in great wrath, viewing him in this light as his enemy.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Wherefore hidest thou thy face - To hide the face, or to turn it away, is expressive of disapprobation. We turn away the face when we are offended with anyone. See the notes at Isaiah 1:15.

And holdest me for thine enemy - Regardest and treatest me as an enemy.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 13:24. Wherefore hidest thou thy face — Why is it that I no longer enjoy thy approbation?

Holdest me for thine enemy? — Treatest me as if I were the vilest of sinners?