Text -- Job 13:24 (NET)

13:24 Why do you hide your face and regard me as your enemy?

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Job 13:24

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.