Job 13:25

Wilt Thou frighten away a leaf driven to and fro? 1 And wilt Thou pursue the dry kash (straw, chaff)? 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

24Lammah (why) hidest Thou Thy face, 1 and holdest me for Thine enemy? 1

26For Thou writest down merorot (bitter things) against me, 1 and makest me to inherit the avonot of my neurim (youth). 1

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Cross References

1 Samuel 24:14As saith the mashal (proverb) of the ancients, Resha (wickedness) proceedeth from the resha'im; but mine yad shall not be upon thee.

Job 21:18They are as straw before the ruach, 1 and as chaff that the storm carrieth away. 1

Matthew 12:20KANEH RATZUTZ LO YISHBOR UFISHTAH CHEHAH LO YECHABENAH LE-EMET YOTZI MISHPAT (A bruised reed he will not break nor a smoldering wick will he snuff out) until Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach leads mishpat (justice) 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 →

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