Job 13:25
Would You frighten a windblown leaf? Would You chase after dry chaff?
BSB
ASV
Wilt thou harass a driven leaf? And wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
KJV
Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
Job compares himself to a leaf already fallen, which the storm still chases hither and thither. break--literally, "shake with (Thy) terrors." Jesus Christ does not "break the bruised reed" (Isa 42:3, 27:8).
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Matthew 12:20A bruised reed He will not break, and a smoldering wick He will not extinguish, till He leads justice to victory.
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A bruised reed He will not break and a smoldering wick He will not extinguish; He will faithfully bring forth justice.
I will seek the lost, bring back the strays, bind up the broken, and strengthen the weak; but the sleek and strong I will destroy. I will shepherd them with justice.’
The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty…
He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.
“The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight…
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Job 21:18Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?
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Not so the wicked! For they are like chaff driven off by the wind.
Make them like tumbleweed, O my God, like chaff before the wind.
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Job 14:3Do You open Your eyes to one like this? Will You bring him into judgment before You?
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O LORD, what is man, that You regard him, the son of man that You think of him?