Job Prepares His Case
Job 13:25
In 11 translations
- BSB
- Would You frighten a windblown leaf? Would You chase after dry chaff?
- KJV
- Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
- WEB
- Will you harass a driven leaf? Will you pursue the dry stubble?
- ASV
- Wilt thou harass a driven leaf? And wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
- LSV
- Do You terrify a leaf driven away? And do You pursue the dry stubble?
- YLT
- A leaf driven away dost Thou terrify? And the dry stubble dost Thou pursue?
- DBY
- Wilt thou terrify a driven leaf? and wilt thou pursue dry stubble?
- DRC
- Against a leaf, that is carried away with the wind, thou shewest thy power, and thou pursuest a dry straw.
- GNV
- Wilt thou breake a leafe driuen to and from? and wilt thou pursue the drie stubble?
- JPS
- Wilt Thou harass a driven leaf? And wilt Thou pursue the dry stubble?
- LXXE
- Wilt thou be startled at me, as at a leaf shaken by the wind? or wilt thou set thyself against me as against grass borne upon the breeze?
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- הֶעָלֶ֣ה נִדָּ֣ף תַּעֲר֑וֹץ וְאֶת־קַ֖שׁ יָבֵ֣שׁ תִּרְדֹּֽף׃
- LXX-Br
- Ἢ ὡς φῦλλον κινούμενον ὑπὸ ἀνέμου εὐλαβηθήσῃ, ἢ ὡς χόρτῳ φερομένῳ ὑπὸ πνεύματος ἀντίκεισαί μοι;
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◆ Job's Trial
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Cross-references most cited first
- 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,…
- Job 21:18Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?
- 1 Samuel 24:14Against whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom are you pursuing? A dead dog? A flea?
- 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.
- Job 14:3Do You open Your eyes to one like this? Will You bring him into judgment before You?
- Matthew 12:20A bruised reed He will not break, and a smoldering wick He will not extinguish, till He leads justice to victory.
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