Job 13:25

23 How many are my iniquities and sins? Reveal to me my transgression and sin.

24 Why do You hide Your face and consider me as Your enemy?

Would You frighten a windblown leaf? Would You chase after dry chaff?

26 For You record bitter accusations against me and bequeath to me the iniquities of my youth.

27 You put my feet in the stocks and stand watch over all my paths; You set a limit for the soles of my feet.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB
Would You frighten a windblown leaf? Would You chase after dry chaff?
KJV
Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
WEB
Will you harass a driven leaf? Will you pursue the dry stubble?
ASV
Wilt thou harass a driven leaf? And wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
DARBY
Wilt thou terrify a driven leaf? and wilt thou pursue dry stubble?
BLB
Would You make tremble a leaf driven away, and would You pursue dry stubble?
ÅB
Vil du skremme et bortblåst blad og forfølge det tørre strå? -
OTB
Vil du skremme et vindblåst blad?
Eller vil du jage etter tørt agner?
B1930
Vil du skremme et bortblåst blad og forfølge det tørre strå? -

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Leviticus 26:36

    As for those of you who survive, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies, so that even the sound of a windblown leaf will put them to flight. And they will flee as one flees the sword, and fall when no one pursues them.

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  • Job 21:18

    Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?

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  • 1 Samuel 24:14

    Against whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom are you pursuing? A dead dog? A flea?

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  • Matthew 12:20

    A bruised reed He will not break, and a smoldering wick He will not extinguish, till He leads justice to victory.

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  • Job 14:3

    Do You open Your eyes to one like this? Will You bring him into judgment before You?

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  • Isaiah 17:13

    The nations rage like the rush of many waters. He rebukes them, and they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills, like tumbleweeds before a gale.

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