Job 13:25 · KJV
“Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?”
— Job 13:25
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?
For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
Job 13 — Context
How many {are} mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.
24Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?
25Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
26For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
27Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet. {lookest...: Heb. observest} {heels: Heb. roots}
Cross References
Leviticus 26:36
And upon them that are left {alive} of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth. {shaken: Heb. driven}
Job 21:18
They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away. {carrieth: Heb. stealeth}
Matthew 12:20
A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench, till he send forth judgment unto victory.
1 Samuel 24:14
After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea.
Job 14:3
And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?
Isaiah 17:13
The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but {God} shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind. {a rolling...: or, thistledown}