Job 13:25 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁵Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?

Job 13:25 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.
Job 21:18
They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
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.
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.
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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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 23-28)

Here, I. Job enquires after his sins, and begs to have them discovered to him. He looks up to God, and asks him what was the number of them (How many are my iniquities?) and what were the particulars of them: Make me to know my transgressions, Job 13:23. His friends were ready enough to tell him how numerous and how heinous they were, Job 22:5. “But, Lord,” says he, “let me know them from thee; fo…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 25)

25. (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).