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Selected Verse: Job 13:24 - Strong Concordance

Verse         Translation Text
Job 13:24 Strong Concordance Wherefore hidest [05641] thou thy face [06440], and holdest [02803] me for thine enemy [0341]?
  King James Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
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, Job 7:21).
 
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21 And why dost thou not pardon [05375] my transgression [06588], and take away [05674] mine iniquity [05771]? for now shall I sleep [07901] in the dust [06083]; and thou shalt seek me in the morning [07836], but I shall not be.
17 What is man [0582], that thou shouldest magnify [01431] him? and that thou shouldest set [07896] thine heart [03820] upon him?
15 And when ye spread forth [06566] your hands [03709], I will hide [05956] mine eyes [05869] from you: yea, when ye make many [07235] prayers [08605], I will not hear [08085]: your hands [03027] are full [04390] of blood [01818].