Job 13:25
Against a leaf, which is carried away by the wind, you reveal your power, and you pursue dry straw.
Catholic Public Domain 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 you conceal your face and consider me to be your enemy?
26For you write bitter things against me, and you want to consume me for the sins of my youth.
Cross References
1 Samuel 24:14So too, it is said in the ancient proverb, ‘From the impious, impiety will go forth.’ Therefore, my hand will not be upon you.
Job 21:18They will be like chaff before the face of the wind, and like ashes that the whirlwind scatters.
Matthew 12:20He shall not crush the bruised reed, and he shall not extinguish the smoking wick, until he sends forth judgment unto 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 →