Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
Wilt thou terrify a driven leaf? and wilt thou pursue dry stubble?
New American Standard Bible
Or will You pursue the dry
King James Version
Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
Holman Bible
Will You chase after dry straw?
International Standard Version
Are you a god who would make a leaf tremble or who would prosecute a dry straw?
A Conservative Version
Will thou harass a driven leaf? And will thou pursue the dry stubble?
American Standard Version
Wilt thou harass a driven leaf? And wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
Amplified
“Will You cause a windblown leaf to tremble?
Will You pursue the chaff of the dry stubble?
Bible in Basic English
Will you be hard on a leaf in flight before the wind? will you make a dry stem go more quickly on its way?
Julia Smith Translation
Wilt thou terrify the scattered leaf? and wilt thou pursue the dry straw?
King James 2000
Will you break a leaf driven to and fro? and will you pursue the dry stubble?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Will you terrify a blown leaf? And will you pursue dry stubble?
Modern King James verseion
Will You terrify a leaf driven to and fro? Will You pursue the dry stubble?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Wilt thou be so cruel and extreme unto a flying leaf, and follow upon dry stubble?
NET Bible
Do you wish to torment a windblown leaf and chase after dry chaff?
New Heart English Bible
Will you harass a driven leaf? Will you pursue the dry stubble?
The Emphasized Bible
A driven leaf, wilt thou cause to tremble? Or, dry stubble, wilt thou pursue?
Webster
Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
World English Bible
Will you harass a driven leaf? Will you pursue the dry stubble?
Youngs Literal Translation
A leaf driven away dost Thou terrify? And the dry stubble dost Thou pursue?
Themes
Interlinear
`arats
Nadaph
Radaph
References
Easton
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 13:25
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job Argues His Case With God
24 Wherefore dost thou hide thy face, and countest me for thine enemy? 25 Wilt thou terrify a driven leaf? and wilt thou pursue dry stubble? 26 For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth;
Names
Cross References
Leviticus 26:36
And as to those that remain of you I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies, that the sound of a driven leaf shall chase them, and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth;
Job 21:18
Do they become as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away?
1 Samuel 24:14
After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a single flea.
Job 14:3
Yet dost thou open thine eyes upon such a one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?
Isaiah 17:13
The nations rush as the rushing of many waters; but he will rebuke them, and they shall flee far away, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a whirling of dust before the whirlwind:
Matthew 12:20
a bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench, until he bring forth judgment unto victory;