Job 13:25
Do you wish to torment a windblown leaf and chase after dry chaff?
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Referenced Verses
- Lev 26:36 : 36 “‘As for the ones who remain among you, I will bring despair into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a blowing leaf will pursue them, and they will flee as one who flees the sword and fall down even though there is no pursuer.
- Job 21:18 : 18 How often are they like straw before the wind, and like chaff swept away by a whirlwind?
- Isa 17:13 : 13 Though these people make an uproar as loud as the roaring of powerful waves, when he shouts at them, they will flee to a distant land, driven before the wind like dead weeds on the hills, or like dead thistles before a strong gale.
- Matt 12:20 : 20 He will not break a bruised reed or extinguish a smoldering wick, until he brings justice to victory.
- 1 Sam 24:14 : 14 Who has the king of Israel come out after? Who is it that you are pursuing? A dead dog? A single flea?
- Job 14:3 : 3 Do you fix your eye on such a one? And do you bring me before you for judgment?
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