Job 13:25

WEB

²⁵Will you harass a driven leaf? Will you pursue the dry stubble?

KJV

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

BSB

²⁵Would You frighten a windblown leaf? Would You chase after dry chaff?

FBV

²⁵Would you frighten a leaf blown by the wind or hunt down a piece of straw?

Extra References

Leviticus 26:36

³⁶“‘As for those of you who are left, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight; and they shall flee, as one flees from the sword. They will fall when no one pursues.

Job 21:18

¹⁸How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?

Isaiah 17:13

¹³The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters, but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far off, and will be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.

1 Samuel 24:14

¹⁴Against whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom do you pursue? A dead dog? A flea?

Matthew 12:20

²⁰He won’t break a bruised reed. He won’t quench a smoking flax, until he leads justice to victory.

Job 14:3

³Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?