Job 13:25
Do You terrify a leaf driven away? And do You pursue the dry stubble?
Literal Standard 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 hide Your face? And reckon me for an enemy to You?
26For You write bitter things against me, || And cause me to possess iniquities of my youth,
Cross References
1 Samuel 24:14After whom has the king of Israel come out? After whom are you pursuing? After a dead dog! After one flea!
Job 21:18They are as straw before wind, || And as chaff a windstorm has stolen away,
Matthew 12:20A bruised reed He will not break, || And smoking flax He will not quench, || Until He may put forth judgment to 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 →