24 Why is your face veiled from me, as if I was numbered among your haters?
His wrath is burning against me, and I am to him as one of his haters.
The Lord has become like one fighting against her, sending destruction on Israel; he has sent destruction on all her great houses, making waste his strong places: increasing the grief and the sorrow of the daughter of Judah.
And I will be waiting for the Lord, whose face is veiled from the house of Jacob, and I will be looking for him.
Lord, why have you sent away my soul? why is your face covered from me?
See, he is looking for something against me; in his eyes I am as one of his haters;
And he said, My face will be veiled from them, I will see what their end will be: for they are an uncontrolled generation, children in whom is no faith.
And Samuel said, Why do you put your questions to me, seeing that God has gone away from you and is on the side of him who is against you?
The memory of my song comes back to me in the night; my thoughts are moving in my heart; my spirit is searching with care. Will the Lord put me away for ever? will he be kind no longer? Is his mercy quite gone for ever? has his word come to nothing? Has God put away the memory of his pity? are his mercies shut up by his wrath? (Selah.)
If only God would give ear to me, and the Ruler of all would give me an answer! or if what he has against me had been put in writing!
You have become cruel to me; the strength of your hand is hard on me.
I am broken by his wrath, and his hate has gone after me; he has made his teeth sharp against me: my haters are looking on me with cruel eyes;
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Commentary on Job 13 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 13
Job here comes to make application of what he had said in the foregoing chapter; and now we have him not in so good a temper as he was in then: for,
Job 13:1-12
Job here warmly expresses his resentment of the unkindness of his friends.
Job 13:13-22
Job here takes fresh hold, fast hold, of his integrity, as one that was resolved not to let it go, nor suffer it to be wrested from him. His firmness in this matter is commendable and his warmth excusable.
Job 13:23-28
Here,