Job 13:25

Modern

Would You frighten a windblown leaf? Would You chase after dry chaff?

Traditional

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

Literal

Would You make tremble a leaf driven away, and would You pursue dry stubble?

Latin

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

Hebrew

English

Would You frighten a windblown leaf? Would You chase after dry chaff?

In the Old Testament, dry chaff often symbolizes something that can blow away or burn (Psalm 83:13; Isaiah 40:24; Jeremiah 13:24; Exodus 15:7; Isaiah 47:14; Malachi 4:1; see also “dry grass,” Isaiah 5:24; 33:11). It also represents weakness and lack of importance (Job 41:20–21; Isaiah 41:2).

Job 21:18
Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?
Leviticus 26:36
As for those of you who survive, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies, so that even the sound of a windblown leaf will put them to flight. And they will flee as one flees the sword, and fall when no one pursues them.
1 Samuel 24:14
Against whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom are you pursuing? A dead dog? A flea?
Matthew 12:20
A bruised reed He will not break, and a smoldering wick He will not extinguish, till He leads justice to victory.
Job 14:3
Do You open Your eyes to one like this? Will You bring him into judgment before You?
Isaiah 17:13
The nations rage like the rush of many waters. He rebukes them, and they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills, like tumbleweeds before a gale.