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Job 13:25
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Will you frighten a wind-driven leaf?Will you chase after dry straw?
Will you harass a driven leaf? Will you pursue the dry stubble?
Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
Will you frighten a driven leaf and pursue dry chaff?
Don't punish a leaf that is blown by the wind; don't chase after straw.
"Will You cause a windblown leaf to tremble? Will You pursue the chaff of the dry stubble?
"Will You scare away a scattered leaf? Or will You pursue the dry chaff?
Will you harass a driven leaf? Will you pursue the dry stubble?
Wilt thou breake a leafe driuen to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the drie stubble?
Will You cause a driven leaf to tremble?Or will You pursue the dry chaff?
Will You frighten a windblown leaf? Will You chase after dry chaff?
Do you really enjoy frightening a fallen leaf?
Do you want to harass a wind-driven leaf? do you want to pursue a dry straw?
Wilt thou terrify a driven leaf? and wilt thou pursue dry stubble?
Are you trying to scare me? I am only a leaf blowing in the wind. You are attacking a piece of straw!
Wilt thou tread upon a fallen leaf? And wilt thou pursue the dry grass in the air?
Are you trying to frighten me? I'm nothing but a leaf; you are attacking a piece of dry straw.
Will you terrify a blown leaf? And will you pursue dry stubble?
Will You terrify a leaf driven to and fro? Will you pursue the dry stubble?
Wilt thou be so cruell & extreme vnto a flyenge leaf, and folowe vpon drye stubble?
Wilt thou harass a driven leaf? And wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
Will you be hard on a leaf in flight before the wind? will you make a dry stem go more quickly on its way?
Wilt Thou harass a driven leaf? And wilt Thou pursue the dry stubble?
Wilt thou breake a leafe driuen to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the drie stubble?
Wylt thou breake a leafe driuen to and fro, and wilt thou pursue the drye stubble?
Wilt thou be startled at me, as at a leaf shaken by the wind? or wilt thou set thyself against me as against grass borne upon the breeze?
Wilt thou harass a driven leaf? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
Thou schewist thi myyt ayens a leef, which is rauyschid with the wynd; and thou pursuest drye stobil.
Will you harass a driven leaf? And will you pursue the dry stubble?
Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
Will You frighten a leaf driven to and fro? And will You pursue dry stubble?
Would you terrify a leaf blown by the wind? Would you chase dry straw?
Will You make a wind-blown leaf afraid? Will You go after the dry parts of a grain-field that have no worth?
Will you frighten a windblown leaf and pursue dry chaff?
A driven leaf, wilt thou cause to tremble? Or, dry stubble, wilt thou pursue?
Against a leaf, that is carried away with the wind, thou shewest thy power, and thou pursuest a dry straw.
Wilt thou frighten a driven leaf and pursue dry chaff?
A leaf driven away dost Thou terrify? And the dry stubble dost Thou pursue?
"Will You cause a driven leaf to tremble? Or will You pursue the dry chaff?
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
break: Job 14:3, 1 Samuel 24:14, Isaiah 17:13, Matthew 12:20
Reciprocal: Job 6:11 - What Job 21:18 - as stubble Job 30:21 - become cruel Job 33:10 - he findeth Psalms 83:13 - as the Psalms 103:14 - we are dust
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro?.... A leaf that falls from a tree in autumn, and withers and is rolled up, and driven about by the wind, which it cannot resist, to which Job here compares himself; but it is not to be understood of him with respect to his spiritual estate; for being a good man, and one that trusted in the Lord, and made him his hope, he was, as every good man is, like to a tree planted by rivers of water, whose leaf withers not, but is always green, and does not fall off, as is the case of carnal professors, who are compared to trees in autumn, which cast their leaves and rotten fruit; see Psalms 1:3; but in respect to his outward estate, his frailty, weakness, and feebleness, especially as now under the afflicting hand of God; see Isaiah 64:6; so John the Baptist, on account of his being a frail mortal man, a weak feeble creature, compares himself to a reed shaken with the wind, Matthew 11:7; now to break such an one was to add affliction to affliction, and which could not well be borne; and the like is signified by the next clause,
and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble? which cannot stand before the wind, or the force of devouring fire; this also respects not Job in his spiritual estate, with regard to which he was not like to dry stubble or chaff, to which wicked men are compared, Psalms 1:4; but to standing corn and wheat in the full ear; and not only to green grass, which is flourishing, but to palm trees, and cedar trees of the Lord, which are full of sap, to which good men are like; but he describes him in his weak and afflicted state, tossed to and fro like dry stubble; and no more able to contend and grapple with an incensed God than dry stubble can withstand devouring flames; this he says, partly to suggest that it was below the Divine Being to set his strength against his weakness; as David said to Saul, "after whom is the king of Israel come out? after a dead dog, after a flea?" 1 Samuel 24:14; which words Bar Tzemach compares with these; and partly to move the divine pity and commiseration towards him, who uses not to "break the bruised reed, nor quench the smoking flax", Isaiah 42:3.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? - Job here means to say that the treatment of God in regard to him was like treading down a leaf that was driven about by the wind - an insigni ficant, unsettled, and worthless thing. “Wouldst thou show thy power against such an object?” - The sense is, that it was not worthy of God thus to pursue one so unimportant, and so incapable of offering any resistance.
And wilt thou pursue the dry stubble? - Is it worthy of God thus to contend with the driven straw and stubble of the field? To such a leaf, and to such stubble, he compares himself; and he asks whether God could be employed in a work such as that would be, of pursuing such a flying leaf or driven stubble with a desire to overtake it, and wreak his vengeance on it.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 13:25. Wilt thou break a leaf — Is it becoming thy dignity to concern thyself with a creature so contemptible?
