Job 13:25

Do you wish to torment a windblown leaf and chase after dry chaff?

Leviticus 26:36

"'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

How often are they like straw before the wind, and like chaff swept away by a whirlwind?

1 Samuel 24:14

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

Do you fix your eye on such a one? And do you bring me before you for judgment?

Isaiah 17:13

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.

Matthew 12:20

He will not break a bruised reed or extinguish a smoldering wick, until he brings justice to victory.

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Summary

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

Bible References

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Job 14:3
Do you fix your eye on such a one? And do you bring me before you for judgment?
1 Samuel 24:14
Who has the king of Israel come out after? Who is it that you are pursuing? A dead dog? A single flea?
Isaiah 17:13
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.
Matthew 12:20
He will not break a bruised reed or extinguish a smoldering wick, until he brings justice to victory.

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