Job 13:25
Will you be startled at me, as at a leaf shaken by the wind? or will you set yourself against me as against grass borne upon the breeze?
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
In Context
24Therefore hide you yourself from me, and deem me your enemy?
26for you have written evil things against me, and you have compassed me with the sins of my youth.
Cross References
1 Samuel 24:14As the old proverb + 24:14 Gr. is said. says, Transgression will proceed from the wicked ones: but my hand shall not be upon you.
Job 21:18And they shall be as chaff before the wind, or as dust which the storm has taken up.
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 →