Job 13:25

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

A leaf driven away dost Thou terrify? And the dry stubble dost Thou pursue?

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Referenced Verses

  • Lev 26:36 : 36 `And those who are left of you -- I have also brought a faintness into their heart in the lands of their enemies, and the sound of a leaf driven away hath pursued them, and they have fled -- flight from a sword -- and they have fallen, and there is none pursuing.
  • Job 21:18 : 18 They are as straw before wind, And as chaff a hurricane hath stolen away,
  • Isa 17:13 : 13 Nations as the wasting of many waters are wasted, And He hath pushed against it, And it hath fled afar off, And been pursued as chaff of hills before wind, And as a rolling thing before a hurricane.
  • Matt 12:20 : 20 a bruised reed he shall not break, and smoking flax he shall not quench, till he may put forth judgment to victory,
  • 1 Sam 24:14 : 14 `After whom hath the king of Israel come out? after whom art thou pursuing? -- after a dead dog! after one flea!
  • Job 14:3 : 3 Also -- on this Thou hast opened Thine eyes, And dost bring me into judgment with Thee.

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  • 13O my God, make them as a rolling thing, As stubble before wind.

  • 30For ye are as an oak whose leaf is fading, And as a garden that hath no water.

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  • 38In the hardening of dust into hardness, And clods cleave together?

  • 15So dost Thou pursue them with Thy whirlwind, And with Thy hurricane troublest them.

  • 26For reproof -- do you reckon words? And for wind -- sayings of the desperate.

  • 28But ye say, `Why do we pursue after him?' And the root of the matter hath been found in me.

  • 27To satisfy a desolate and waste place, And to cause to shoot up The produce of the tender grass?

  • 11Ye conceive chaff, ye bear stubble, Your spirit! -- fire devoureth you.

  • 11At that time it is said of this people, And of Jerusalem: `A dry wind of high places in the wilderness,' The way of the daughter of My people, (Not for winnowing, nor for cleansing,)

  • 19How long dost Thou not look from me? Thou dost not desist till I swallow my spittle.

  • 5As heat in a dry place, The noise of strangers Thou humblest, Heat with the shadow of a thick cloud, The singing of the terrible is humbled.

  • 24Yea, they have not been planted, Yea, they have not been sown, Yea, not taking root in the earth is their stock, And also He hath blown upon them, and they wither, And a whirlwind as stubble taketh them away.

  • 9Before your pots discern the bramble, As well the raw as the heated He whirleth away.

  • 2Till when do ye afflict my soul, And bruise me with words?

  • 24Where `is' this, the way light is apportioned? It scattereth an east wind over the earth.

  • 11In the day thy plant thou causest to become great, And in the morning thy seed makest to flourish, A heap `is' the harvest in a day of overflowing, And of mortal pain.

  • 8Dost thou also make void My judgment? Dost thou condemn Me, That thou mayest be righteous?

  • 3Therefore they are as a cloud of the morning, And as dew, rising early, going away, As chaff tossed about out of a floor, And as smoke out of a window.

  • 10For while princes `are' perplexed, And with their drink are drunken, They have been consumed as stubble fully dried.

  • 27And thy sitting down, and thy going out, And thy coming in, I have known, And thine anger towards Me;

  • 12Doth one break iron -- northern iron, and brass?

  • 13To take hold on the skirts of the earth, And the wicked are shaken out of it,

  • 5For -- with footmen thou hast run, And they weary thee, And how dost thou fret thyself with horses! Even in the land of peace, `In which' thou art confident -- And how dost thou in the rising of Jordan!

  • 15Though he among brethren produceth fruit, Come in doth an east wind, a wind of Jehovah, From a wilderness it is coming up, And it drieth up his fountain, And become dry doth his spring, It -- it spoileth a treasure -- every desirable vessel.

  • 12Why hast Thou broken down its hedges, And all passing by the way have plucked it?

  • 18Why hath my pain been perpetual? And my wound incurable? It hath refused to be healed, Thou art surely to me as a failing stream, Waters not stedfast.

  • 27And their inhabitants are feeble-handed, They were broken down, and are dried up. They have been the herb of the field, And the greenness of the tender grass, Grass of the roofs, And blasted corn, before it hath risen up.

  • 8His face do ye accept, if for God ye strive?

  • 12And it is plucked up in fury, To the earth it hath been cast, And the east wind hath dried up its fruit, Broken and withered hath been the rod of its strength, Fire hath consumed it.

  • 36`And those who are left of you -- I have also brought a faintness into their heart in the lands of their enemies, and the sound of a leaf driven away hath pursued them, and they have fled -- flight from a sword -- and they have fallen, and there is none pursuing.

  • 8I hasten escape for myself, From a rushing wind, from a whirlwind.

  • 3Is there an end to words of wind? Or what doth embolden thee that thou answerest?

  • 10Turn aside from off me Thy stroke, From the striving of Thy hand I have been consumed.