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Job 13:25

Discouragement and depression

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?

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.

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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)

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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.

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  • Job 21:18

    They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.

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  • 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.

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  • Matthew 12:20

    A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench, till he send forth judgment unto victory.

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  • Job 14:3

    And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?

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  • 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.

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