Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Wilt thou be so cruel and extreme unto a flying leaf, and follow upon 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 King James verseion
Will You terrify a leaf driven to and fro? Will You pursue the 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
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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 hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy? 25 Wilt thou be so cruel and extreme unto a flying leaf, and follow upon dry stubble? 26 For thou layest sharply to my charge, and punisheth me, for the sins of my youth.
Names
Cross References
Leviticus 26:36
"'And upon them that are left alive of you, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the land of their enemies: so that the sound of a leaf that falleth, shall chase them and they shall flee as though they fled a sword, and shall fall no man following them.
Job 21:18
Yea, they shall be even as chaff before the wind, and as dust that the storm carrieth away.
1 Samuel 24:14
After whom art thou come out, thou king of Israel? After whom chasest thou? Even after a dead dog, and after a flea!
Job 14:3
Doest thou open thine eyes upon such one, and bringest me in thy judgment?
Isaiah 17:13
Even like many waters shall the people rage: God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and vanish away like the dust with the wind upon a hill, and as the whirlwind through a storm.
Matthew 12:20
A bruised reed shall he not break, and flax that beginneth to burn he shall not quench, till he send forth judgment unto victory.