Parallel Verses

World English Bible

Why hide you 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 King James verseion

Why do You hide Your face, and hold me for 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?

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 me know my disobedience and my sin. 24 Why hide you your face, and hold me for your enemy? 25 Will you harass a driven leaf? Will you pursue the dry stubble?

Cross References

Job 19:11

He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me among his adversaries.

Lamentations 2:5

The Lord is become as an enemy, he has swallowed up Israel; He has swallowed up all her palaces, he has destroyed his strongholds; He has multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.

Deuteronomy 32:20

He said, "I will hide my face from them. I will see what their end shall be; for they are a very perverse generation, children in whom is no faithfulness.

Job 33:10

Behold, he finds occasions against me. He counts me for his enemy.

Psalm 13:1

How long, Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?

Isaiah 8:17

I will wait for Yahweh, 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 our oppression?

Psalm 88:14

Yahweh, why do you reject my soul? Why do you hide your face from me?

1 Samuel 28:16

Samuel said, "Why then do you ask of me, since Yahweh has departed from you and has become your adversary?

Job 10:2

I will tell God, 'Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.

Job 16:9

He has torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me. He has gnashed on me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes on me.

Job 29:2-3

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

Job 30:21

You have turned to be cruel to me. With the might of your hand you persecute me.

Job 31:35

oh that I had one to hear me! (behold, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me); let the accuser write my indictment!

Psalm 10:1

Why do you stand far off, Yahweh? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?

Psalm 77:6-9

I remember my song in the night. I consider in my own heart; my spirit diligently inquires:

2 Thessalonians 3:15

Don't count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

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