Job 13:24

Why do you hide your face ¹  and regard me as your enemy?

De 32:20; 1Sa 28:16; Job 10:2; Job 16:9; Job 19:11; Job 29:2,3; Job 30:21; Job 31:35; Job 33:10; Ps 10:1; Ps 13:1; Ps 44:24; Ps 77:6-9; Ps 88:14; Isa 8:17; La 2:5; 2Th 3:15

¹ 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.