Job 13:25

Wilt thou terrify a leaf driven about [by the wind]? and wilt thou pursue dry stubble?

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?

In Context

24Wherefore wilt thou hide thy face, and regard me as an enemy unto thee?

26That thou writest bitter decrees against me, and assignest unto me the iniquities of my youth;

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Cross References

1 Samuel 24:14After whom is the king of Israel gone out? after whom art thou pursuing? after a dead dog, after a single flea.

Job 21:18Are they as straw before the wind, and as chaff which the stealeth away?

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 →

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