Job 13:25
Will you be hard on a leaf in flight before the wind? will you make a dry stem go more quickly on its way?
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
In Context
24Why is your face veiled from me, as if I was numbered among your haters?
Cross References
1 Samuel 24:14\24:13\There is an old saying, From the evil-doer comes evil: but my hand will never be lifted up against you.
Job 21:18How frequently are they as dry stems before the wind, or as grass taken away by the storm-wind?
Matthew 12:20The crushed stem will not be broken by him; and the feebly burning light will he not put out, till he has made righteousness overcome all.
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 →