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Job 13:25

Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?

KJV

Contra folium, quod vento rapitur, ostendis potentiam tuam, et stipulam siccam persequeris :

Vulgate

ἢ ὡς φύλλον κινούμενον ὑπὸ ἀνέμου εὐλαβηθήσῃ, ἢ ὡς χόρτῳ φερομένῳ ὑπὸ πνεύματος ἀντίκεισαί μοι;

LXX

Wilt thou harass a driven leaf? And wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?

ASV

הֶ/עָלֶ֣ה נִדָּ֣ף תַּעֲר֑וֹץ וְ/אֶת קַ֖שׁ יָבֵ֣שׁ תִּרְדֹּֽף

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֶת
't
pronoun · 10895×
הוּ
hv
noun · 18×
יָבֵ֑שׁ
ybsh
adjective · 9×
ם
m
verb · 144×
נּוּ
nv
verb · 9×
עֲרֹ֥ץ
'rts
verb · 15×
קַ֖שׁ
qsh
noun · 15×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Job 21:18 — They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
  • Job 21:18 — They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
  • Lev 26:36 — And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from
  • Ps 83:13 — O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.
  • Ps 103:14 — For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.