Job 13:25
Will thou harass a driven leaf? And will thou pursue the dry stubble?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
In Context
24Why do thou hide thy face, and reckon me for thine enemy?
26For thou write bitter things against me, and make me to inherit the iniquities of my youth.
Cross References
1 Samuel 24:14After whom is the king of Israel come out? After whom do thou pursue? After a dead dog, after a flea.
Job 21:18that they are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carries away?
Matthew 12:20A bruised reed he will not break, and smoldering flax he will not quench, until he sends forth justice for victory.
Matthew Henry on Job 13:24-28
23 How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin. 24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy? 25 Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble? 26 For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth. 27 Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet. 28 And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a… Read the whole commentary →