But when He remains silent, who can condemn Him? When He hides His face, who can see Him? Yet He watches over both man and nation,
Cross References
Job 34:28They caused the cry of the poor to come before Him, and He heard the outcry of the afflicted.
Job 34:30that godless men should not rule or lay snares for the people.
Psalm 94:13to grant him relief from days of trouble, until a pit is dug for the wicked.
Treasury of Scripture
When he gives quietness, who then can make trouble? and when he hides his face, who then can behold him? whether it be done against a nation, or against a man only:
When he giveth
Job 29:1-3
Moreover Job continued his parable, and said, …
2 Samuel 7:1
And it came to pass, when the king sat in his house, and the LORD had given him rest round about from all his enemies;
Isaiah 14:3-8
And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve, …
when he hideth
Job 23:8,9
Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him: …
Psalm 13:1
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
Psalm 27:9
Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.
who then can behold
Job 12:14
Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.
Job 23:13
But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.
whether
2 Kings 18:9-12
And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it…
2 Chronicles 36:14-17
Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of the LORD which he had hallowed in Jerusalem…
Jeremiah 27:8
And it shall come to pass, that the nation and kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation will I punish, saith the LORD, with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.
