Job 13:25
Will you persecute a driven leaf? 1 Will you pursue dry stubble? 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
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 from me 1 and treat me like your enemy? 1
26For you write down bitter things against me; 1 you make me inherit the iniquities of my youth. 1
Cross References
1 Samuel 24:14After whom has the king of Israel come out? After whom do you pursue? After a dead dog! After a flea!
Job 21:18How often is it that they become like stubble before the wind 1 or like chaff that the storm carries away? 1
Matthew 12:20He will not break any bruised reed; 1 he will not quench any smoking flax, 1 until he leads 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 →