Job 13:25
Will you break a leaf driven back and forth? and will you pursue the dry stubble?
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
In Context
24Wherefore hide you your face, and hold me for yours enemy?
26For you write bitter things against me, and make me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
Cross References
1 Samuel 24:14After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom do you pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea.
Job 21:18They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carries away.
Matthew 12:20A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench, till he send forth judgment unto 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 →