Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
Will You terrify a leaf driven to and fro? Will You pursue the 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?
Darby Translation
Wilt thou terrify a driven leaf? and wilt thou pursue dry stubble?
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 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
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Nadaph
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References
Easton
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 13:25
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job Argues His Case With God
24 Why do You hide Your face, and hold me for Your enemy? 25 Will You terrify a leaf driven to and fro? Will You pursue the dry stubble? 26 For You write bitter things against me, and make me to possess the sins of my youth.
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Cross References
Leviticus 26:36
And on those of you that are left I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. And the sound of a driven leaf shall chase them, and they shall flee as if fleeing from a sword. And they shall fall when none pursues.
Job 21:18
they are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm steals away.
1 Samuel 24:14
After whom has the king of Israel come out? After whom do you pursue? After a dead dog? After a flea?
Job 14:3
And You open Your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with You.
Isaiah 17:13
The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters; but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
Matthew 12:20
He will not break a bruised reed, and He will not quench a smoking wick, until He sends out judgment to victory.