Job 13:25 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

• Job 13:25 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? - Job here means to say that the treatment of God in regard to him was like treading down a leaf that was driven about by the wind - an insigni ficant, u...

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• Job 13:25 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble? Wilt thou break a leaf - Is it becoming thy dignity to concern thyself with a creature so contemptible?

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• Job 13:25 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble? ( Leviticus 26:36 ; Psalms 1:4 ). Job compares himself to a leaf already fallen, which the storm still chases h...

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• Job 13:25 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Job's Third Speech (continued) 1-12. Job claims to understand as much about God as the friends. He rejects their opinion as to the cause of his troubles, and regards it as an attempt to curry favo...

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• Job 13:25 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Wilt thou break a leaf. — His confession of sin here approaches even to what the Psalmist describes as the condition of the ungodly ( Psalms 1:4 ).

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• Job 13:25 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  XII. BEYOND FACT AND FEAR TO GOD Job 12:1-25 ; Job 13:1-28 ; Job 14:1-22 Job SPEAKS ZOPHAR excites in Job's mind great irritation, which must not be set down altogether to the fact that he...

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• Job 13:25 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “Though He Slay Me” Job 13:1-28 The sufferer first rebukes his friends, Job 13:4-12 . Then he makes an appeal to God, affirming that he was no hypocrite, and asking that his sins, for which he...

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• Job 13:25 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Continuing his answer, Job restated his conviction that his knowledge was not inferior to theirs, and declared that his appeal was to God (1-3). Before making this appeal there is an introductory pas...

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• Job 13:25 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro ?.... A leaf that falls from a tree in autumn, and withers and is rolled up, and driven about by the wind, which it cannot resist, to which Job here compares...

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• Job 13:25 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble? Ver. 25. Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? &c. ] q.d. Egregiam vero laudem, Thinkest thou to get any...

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• Job 13:25 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Wilt thou break a leaf? &c. Doth it become thy infinite and excellent majesty to use thy might to crush such a poor, impotent, and frail creature as I am, that can no more resist thy power than...

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• Job 13:25 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  JOB DECLARES HIMSELF FULLY EQUAL TO HIS FRIENDS (vv.1-12) Job has spoken at length of God's wisdom and power, now he tells Zophar that his eye has seen all this, his ear has heard it and underst...

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• Job 13:25 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        23 How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.   24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?   25 Wilt thou break a leaf drive...

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• Job 13:25 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Doth it become thy infinite and excellent majesty to use all thy might to crush such a poor, impotent, frail creature as I am, that can no more resist thy power than a leaf, or a little loose and dry...

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• Job 13:25 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  JOB’S REPLY TO ZOPHAR—CONTINUED I. Job re-asserts his knowledge of the Divine procedure as not inferior to that of his friends ( Job 13:1-2 ). “Lo, mine eye,” &c. Right in certain circumsta...

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• Job 13:25 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Job 13:4 . Forgers of lies, misconstruing the ways of providence. Job 13:10 , He will surely reprove you, though under a specious veil you accept of persons. Job 13:12 . Your remembrance...

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• Job 13:25 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Wilt Thou break a leaf driven to and fro? A pitiful plea Poor Job! Who could have been brought lower? In his deep distress he turns to God, and finding no other plea so near at hand he makes a...

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• Job 13:25 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Job 13:1 , Job 13:2 The first two verses of Job 13:1-18 . are closely connected with Job 12:1-18 ; forming the natural termination to the first section of Job's argument,...

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• Job 13:25 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Job's Comfort and Prayer

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• Job 13:25 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Samuel 24:14 ; Isaiah 17:13 ; Job 14:3 ; Matthew 12:20

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• Job 13:25 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Leaf — One that can no more resist thy power, than a leaf, or a little dry straw can resist the wind or fire.

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