Job 13:25

Wilt thou be startled at me, as at a leaf shaken by the wind? 1 Or wilt thou set thyself against me as against grass borne upon the breeze? 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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

In Context

24Wherefore hidest thou thyself from me, 1 And deemest me thine enemy? 1

26For thou hast written evil things against me, 1 And thou hast compassed me with the sins of my youth. 1

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Cross References

1 Samuel 24:14As the old proverb says, Transgression will proceed from the wicked ones: but my hand shall not be upon thee.

Job 21:18And they shall be as chaff before the wind, 1 Or as dust which the storm has taken up. 1

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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