Why is your face veiled from me, as if I was numbered among your haters?
MESSAGE
Why do you stay hidden and silent? Why treat me like I'm your enemy?
NKJV
Why do You hide Your face, And regard me as Your enemy?
PHILIPS
RWEBSTR
Why hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thy enemy?
GWV
Why do you hide your face from me and consider me your enemy?
NET
Why do you hide your face* and regard me as your enemy?
NET
13:24 Why do you hide your face993
sn The anthropomorphism of “hide the face” indicates a withdrawal of favor and an outpouring of wrath (see Ps 30:7 [8]; Isa 54:8; Ps 27:9). Sometimes God “hides his face” to make himself invisible or aloof (see 34:29). In either case, if God covers his face it is because he considers Job an enemy – at least this is what Job thinks.
dia {<1223> PREP} ti {<5100> I-ASN} ap {<575> PREP} emou {<1473> P-GS} krupth {<2928> V-PMI-2S} hghsai {<2233> V-RMI-2S} de {<1161> PRT} me {<1473> P-AS} upenantion {A-ASM} soi {<4771> P-DS}
Job 13:24
