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Job 13:24

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

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לָֽמָּהlamahto howמָהpreposition, particle, interrogative — “to how”H4100properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and even relatively, that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjunctive senseshow (long, oft, (-soever)), (no-) thing, what (end, good, purpose, thing), whereby(-fore, -in, -to, -with), (for) why.פָנֶ֥יךָfaneykhaa- foreפָּנִיםnoun, common, both genders, plural, construct, suffix, pronominal, 2nd person, masculine, singular — “a- fore”, the of-form, joined to the next wordH6440the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition (before, etc.)[phrase] accept, a-(be-) fore(-time), against, anger, [idiom] as (long as), at, [phrase] battle, [phrase] because (of), [phrase] beseech, countenance, edge, [phrase] employ, endure, [phrase] enquire, face, favour, fear of, for, forefront(-…תַסְתִּ֑ירtastirhideסָתַרverb, hiphil, imperfect, 2nd person, masculine, singular — “hide”, an unfinished actionH5641to hide (by covering), literally or figurativelybe absent, keep close, conceal, hide (self), (keep) secret, [idiom] surely.וְתַחְשְׁבֵ֖נִיvetachsheveniand regardחָשַׁבconjunction, verb, qal, imperfect, 2nd person, masculine, singular, suffix, pronominal, 1st person, common, singular — “and regard”, an unfinished actionH2803properly, to plait or interpenetrate, i.e. (literally) to weave or (generally) to fabricate; figuratively, to plot or contrive (usually in a malicious sense); hence (from the mental effort) to think, regard, value, compute(make) account (of), conceive, consider, count, cunning (man, work, workman), devise, esteem, find out, forecast, hold, imagine, impute, invent, be like, mean, purpose, reckon(-ing be made), regard, think.לְאוֹיֵ֣בleoyevto enemyאֹיֵבpreposition, verb, qal, participle, absolute — “to enemy”, a verb used as a describing wordH341hating; an adversaryenemy, foe.לָֽךְlakhetoלָֽךְpreposition, suffix, pronominal, 2nd person, feminine, singular — “to”to

Jewish translation (JPS 1917)

Wherefore hidest Thou Thy face, and holdest me for Thine enemy?

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American Standard Version (1901)

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

Young’s Literal Translation

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

World English Bible

Why do you hide your face, and consider me your enemy?

Darby Translation

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

Douay-Rheims

Why hidest thou thy face, and thinkest me thy enemy?

Jewish Publication Society (1917)

Wherefore hidest Thou Thy face, and holdest me for Thine enemy?

Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English

Wherefore hidest thou thyself from me, and deemest me thine enemy?

Septuagint (Brenton’s Greek, 1851)

Διατί ἀπʼ ἐμοῦ κρύπτῃ, ἥγησαι δέ με ὑπεναντίον σοι;