English Standard Version
Job 13:25
25Will you frighten a driven leaf and pursue dry chaff?
Job 13:25 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
- New International Version (NIV)Will you torment a windblown leaf? Will you chase after dry chaff?
- New King James Version (NKJV)Will You frighten a leaf driven to and fro? And will You pursue dry stubble?
- New Living Translation (NLT)Would you terrify a leaf blown by the wind? Would you chase dry straw?
Context of Job 13:25
23How many are my iniquities and my sins? Make me know my transgression and my sin. 24Why do you hide your face and count me as your enemy? Will you frighten a driven leaf and pursue dry chaff? 26For you write bitter things against me and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth. 27You put my feet in the stocks and watch all my paths; you set a limit for the soles of my feet.
Read all of Job 13Job 13:25 word by word
הֶעָלֶ֣ה נִדָּ֣ף תַּעֲר֑וֹץ וְאֶת־קַ֖שׁ יָבֵ֣שׁ תִּרְדֹּֽף׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 13:25
- Job 14:3And do you open your eyes on such a one and bring me into judgment with you?
- 1 Samuel 24:14After whom has the king of Israel come out? After whom do you pursue? After a dead dog! After a flea!
- Isaiah 17:13The nations roar like the roaring of many waters, but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far away, chased like chaff on the mountains before the wind and whirling dust before the storm.
- Matthew 12:20a bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not quench, until he brings justice to victory;
Commentaries on Job 13:25
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 25Wilt thou break a leaf - Is it becoming thy dignity to concern thyself with a creature so contemptible?Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 25Wilt 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…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 23-28Verses 23-28 Job begs to have his sins discovered to him. A true penitent is willing to know the worst of himself; and we should all desire to know what our transgressions are, that we may confess them, and guard against them for the future. Job complains sorrowfully of God's severe dealings with him. Time does not wear out the guilt of sin. When God writes bitter things against us, his design is to make us bring forgotten sins to mind, and so to bring us…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 25In the Old Testament, dry chaff often symbolizes something that can blow away or burn (Psalm 83:13; Isaiah 40:24; Jeremiah 13:24; Exodus 15:7; Isaiah 47:14; Malachi 4:1; see also “dry grass,” Isaiah 5:24; 33:11). It also represents weakness and lack of importance (Job 41:20–21; Isaiah 41:2).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2525. (Le 26:36; Psa 1:4). Job compares himself to a leaf already fallen, which the storm still chases hither and thither. break--literally, "shake with (Thy) terrors." Jesus Christ does not "break the bruised reed" (Is 42:3, 27:8).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 13
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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