Do you really take notice of one like this? Will you bring me into judgement against you? ,
Job 13:25 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Will you frighten a wind-driven leaf? Will you chase after dry straw? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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 really take notice of one like this? Will you bring me into judgement against you? ,
Why do you persecute me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh?
The nations rage like the rumble of a huge torrent. He rebukes them, and they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills and like tumbleweeds before a gale.
‘I will put anxiety in the hearts of those of you who survive in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a wind-driven leaf will put them to flight, and they will flee as one flees from a sword, and fall though no one is pursuing them.
He will not break a bruised reed, and he will not put out a smouldering wick, until he has led justice to victory.
Who has the king of Israel come after? What are you chasing after? A dead dog? A single flea?