Job 13:25
Would you frighten a leaf blown by the wind or hunt down a piece of straw?
Free Bible 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 are you unfriendly towards me? Why do you treat me as your enemy?
26For you write down bitter things against me and pay me back for the sins of my youth.
Cross References
1 Samuel 24:14Who is the king of Israel coming after? Who are you chasing? A dead dog! Just a flea!
Job 21:18Are they blown along like straw in the wind? Does a tornado come in and carry them away?
Matthew 12:20He won't break a damaged reed, And he won't extinguish a smoking wick, Until he has proved that his judgment is right,
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 →