VERSE STUDY • KJV

Job 13:25

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

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

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

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

Wilt thou harass a driven leaf? And wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?

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

22 Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.

23 How many [are] mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.

24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?

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

26 For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.

27 Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.

28 And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.

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