Job 13:25
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Would You frighten a windblown leaf? Would You chase after dry chaff?”
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BSBPD
“Would You frighten a windblown leaf? Would You chase after dry chaff?”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Wilt thou harass a driven leaf? And wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“A leaf driven away dost Thou terrify? And the dry stubble dost Thou pursue?”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Job 13:25 — 6 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Leviticus 26:36As 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.
- 1 Samuel 24:14Against whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom are you pursuing? A dead dog? A flea?
- Job 14:3Do You open Your eyes to one like this? Will You bring him into judgment before You?
- Job 21:18Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?
- Isaiah 17:13The 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.
- Matthew 12:20A bruised reed He will not break, and a smoldering wick He will not extinguish, till He leads justice to victory.
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
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