Job 13:25

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

²⁵ Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?

Related Commentaries of Job 13:25

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Job 13:25