Job 13:25
Will you harass a driven leaf? Will you pursue the dry stubble?
World English 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, and consider me your enemy?
26For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.
Cross References
1 Samuel 24:14Against whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom do you pursue? A dead dog? A flea?
Job 21:18How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?
Matthew 12:20He won’t break a bruised reed. He won’t quench a smoking flax, 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 →