◄ Job 13:25 ►
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Good News Translation
Are you trying to frighten me? I'm nothing but a leaf; you are attacking a piece of dry straw.

New Revised Standard Version
Will you frighten a windblown leaf and pursue dry chaff?

Contemporary English Version
Do you really enjoy frightening a fallen leaf?

New American Bible
Will you harass a wind-driven leaf or pursue a withered straw?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Against a leaf, that is carried away with the wind, thou shewest thy power, and thou pursuest a dry straw.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Against a leaf, that is carried away with the wind, thou shewest thy power, and thou pursuest a dry straw.

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Job 14:3 And dost thou think it meet to open thy eyes upon such an one, and to bring him into judgment with thee?

1 Samuel 24:14 After whom dost thou pursue? After a dead dog, after a flea.

Isaiah 17:13 Nations shall make a noise like the noise of waters overflowing, but he shall rebuke him, and he shall flee far off: and he shall be carried away as the dust of the mountains before the wind, and as a whirlwind before a tempest.

Matthew 12:20 The bruised reed he shall not break: and smoking flax he shall not extinguish: till he send forth judgment unto victory.

Context
Job Reproves His Friends
…24Why hidest thou thy face, and thinkest me thy enemy? 25Against a leaf, that is carried away with the wind, thou shewest thy power, and thou pursuest a dry straw.26For thou writest bitter things against me, and wilt consume me for the sins of my youth.…
Cross References
Leviticus 26:36
And as to them that shall remain of you I will send fear in their hearts in the countries of their enemies. The sound of a flying leaf shall terrify them: and they shall flee as it were from the sword. They shall fall, when no man pursueth them.

Job 19:22
Why do you persecute me as God, and glut yourselves with my flesh?

Job 21:18
They shall be as chaff before the face of the wind, and as ashes which the whirlwind scattereth.

Job 13:24
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