Job 13:24

13:24 Why do you hide your face ¹ 

and regard me as your enemy?

Jeremiah 30:14

30:14 All your allies have abandoned you. ² 

They no longer have any concern for you.

For I have attacked you like an enemy would.

I have chastened you cruelly.

For your wickedness is so great

and your sin is so much. ³ 

Lamentations 2:5

ה (He)

2:5 The Lord, ⁴  like an enemy,

destroyed ⁵  Israel.

He destroyed ⁶  all her palaces;

he ruined her ⁷  fortified cities.

He made everyone in Daughter Judah

mourn and lament. ⁸ 

[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.

[30:14]  ² tn Heb “forgotten you.”

[30:14]  ³ tn Heb “attacked you like…with the chastening of a cruel one because of the greatness of your iniquity [and because] your sins are many.” The sentence has been broken down to conform to contemporary English style and better poetic scansion.

[2:5]  ⁴ tc The MT reads אֲדֹנָי (’adonay, “the Lord”) here rather than יהוה (YHWH, “the Lord”). See the tc note at 1:14.

[2:5]  ⁵ tn Heb “swallowed up.”

[2:5]  ⁶ tn Heb “swallowed up.”

[2:5]  ⁷ tn Heb “his.” For consistency this has been translated as “her.”

[2:5]  ⁸ tn Heb “He increased in Daughter Judah mourning and lamentation.”