Job 13:25

Thou showest thy might against a leaf, that is ravished away with the wind; and thou pursuest dry stubble.

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King James Version

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

In Context

24Why hidest thou thy face, and deemest me thine enemy?

26For thou writest bitternesses against me; and wilt waste me with the sins of my young waxing age. (For thou writest bitter charges against me; and wilt destroy me for the sins of my youth.)

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Cross References

1 Samuel 24:14Whom pursuest thou, king of Israel, whom pursuest thou? Thou pursuest a dead hound, and a quick flea.

Job 21:18They shall be as chaff before the face of the wind; and as a dead spark, that the whirlwind scattereth abroad. (Be they ever like chaff before the face of the wind? or like a dead spark that the whirlwind scattereth abroad?)

Matthew 12:20A bruised reed he shall not break [or He shall not break (al) together a shaken reed], and he shall not quench smoking flax, till he cast out doom (or judgement), (un)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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