His fury burns against me; he counts me as an enemy.
Parallel translations
- WEB He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me among his adversaries.
- KJV He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.
- BSB His anger burns against me, and He counts me among His enemies.
- NKJV He has also kindled His wrath against me, And He counts me as one of His enemies.
- NASB “He has also kindled His anger against me And considered me as His enemy.
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Quick answer
Job feels God has kindled wrath against him and treats him as an enemy. He experiences God as hostile rather than as friend.
Overview
Job perceives that the Lord regards him as an adversary, the target of divine anger, which is the heart of his anguish. His friends say this proves guilt, but the reader knows Job is upright, exposing the limits of judging God's heart by circumstances. The gospel resolves the deepest form of this fear: through Christ, former enemies of God are reconciled and made his friends (Romans 5:10).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Job 13:24Why hide you your face, and hold me for your enemy?
- Job 33:10Behold, he finds occasions against me. He counts me for his enemy.
- Job 16:9He has torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me. He has gnashed on me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes on me.
- Deut 32:22For a fire is kindled in my anger, that burns to the lowest Sheol, devours the earth with its increase, and sets the foundations of the mountains on fire.
- Lam 2:5The Lord has become as an enemy, he has swallowed up Israel; He has swallowed up all her palaces, he has destroyed his strongholds; He has multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
- Ps 89:46How long, Yahweh? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath burn like fire?
- Ps 90:7For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath.
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Job's cry for a mediator who can lay his hand on both God and man, and his confidence that 'my Redeemer lives' and will stand on the earth, reaches forward to Jesus the living Redeemer.
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