The Meaning of Job 13:24 Explained

Job 13:24

KJV: Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?

YLT: Why dost Thou hide Thy face? And reckonest me for an enemy to Thee?

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

ASV: Wherefore hidest thou thy face, And holdest me for thine enemy?

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CONTEXT: What is the Context of Job 13:24?

MEANING: What does Job 13:24 Mean?

WORDS: What do the individual words in Job 13:24 mean?

RELATIONS: What do the major concepts mean in Job 13:24?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

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

What does Job 13:24 Mean?

Context Summary

Job 13:1-28 - "though He Slay Me"
The sufferer first rebukes his friends, Job 13:4-12. Then he makes an appeal to God, affirming that he was no hypocrite, and asking that his sins, for which he was suffering, might be set down, Job 13:23.
When Job said that he knew himself to be righteous, he was clearly speaking of known sin; he knew, so far as a man may know himself, that he had not committed the sins of which his friends charged him. He could bare his life to the inspection of men and angels, being sure that no accusation of which human law-courts would take cognizance could be established against him. But this is a very different matter with the divine tribunal. When a fuller light had shone upon him from the face of God, when the patriarch had seen Him instead of merely hearing of Him by the ear, then he would "abhor himself and repent in dust and ashes," Job 42:5-6.
Job 13:15 is almost the greatest sentence ever uttered by mortal lips! Let us ask for grace to affirm it. [source]

Chapter Summary: Job 13

1  Job reproves his friends for partiality
14  He professes his confidence in God;
19  and entreats to know his own sins, and God's purpose in afflicting him

What do the individual words in Job 13:24 mean?

Why Your face do You hide and regard me as enemy Your
לָֽמָּה־ פָנֶ֥יךָ תַסְתִּ֑יר וְתַחְשְׁבֵ֖נִי לְאוֹיֵ֣ב ؟ לָֽךְ

לָֽמָּה־  Why 
Parse: Interrogative
Root: לָמָּה 
Sense: what, how, of what kind.
פָנֶ֥יךָ  Your  face 
Parse: Noun, common plural construct, second person masculine singular
Root: לִפְנֵי 
Sense: face.
תַסְתִּ֑יר  do  You  hide 
Parse: Verb, Hifil, Imperfect, second person masculine singular
Root: סָתַר  
Sense: to hide, conceal.
וְתַחְשְׁבֵ֖נִי  and  regard  me 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Conjunctive imperfect, second person masculine singular, first person common singular
Root: חָשַׁב 
Sense: to think, plan, esteem, calculate, invent, make a judgment, imagine, count.
לְאוֹיֵ֣ב  as  enemy 
Parse: Preposition-l, Verb, Qal, Participle, masculine singular
Root: אֹיֵב  
Sense: (Qal) enemy.
؟ לָֽךְ  Your 
Parse: Preposition, second person feminine singular

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