Do you fix your eyes on such a one? Do you bring me into judgment with you?
Job 13:25 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Will you frighten a windblown leaf and pursue dry chaff? More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? And wilt thou pursue the dry stubble? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Will You harass and frighten a [poor, helpless] leaf driven to and fro, and will You pursue the chaff of the dry stubble? American Standard Version (1901) Wilt thou harass a driven leaf? And wilt thou pursue the dry stubble? Common English Bible Will you cause a wind-tossed leaf to tremble, or will you pursue dry straw? Catholic Public Domain Version Against a leaf, which is carried away by the wind, you reveal your power, and you pursue dry straw. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Against a leaf, that is carried away with the wind, thou shewest thy power: and thou pursuest a dry straw. |
Do you fix your eyes on such a one? Do you bring me into judgment with you?
How often are they like straw before the wind and like chaff that the storm carries away?
[[When the nations roar like the roaring of many waters,]] he will rebuke them, and they will flee far away, chased like chaff on the mountains before the wind and like whirling dust before the storm.
And as for those of you who survive, I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; the sound of a driven leaf shall put them to flight, and they shall flee as one flees from the sword, and they shall fall though no one pursues.
He will not break a bruised reed or quench a smoldering wick until he brings justice to victory.
Against whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom do you pursue? A dead dog? A single flea?