The Meaning of Job 13:25 Explained

Job 13:25

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

YLT: A leaf driven away dost Thou terrify? And the dry stubble dost Thou pursue?

Darby: Wilt thou terrify a driven leaf? and wilt thou pursue dry stubble?

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

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CONTEXT: What is the Context of Job 13:25?

MEANING: What does Job 13:25 Mean?

WORDS: What do the individual words in Job 13:25 mean?

RELATIONS: What do the major concepts mean in Job 13:25?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

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

What does Job 13:25 Mean?

Context Summary

Job 13:1-28 - "though He Slay Me"
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 was suffering, might be set down, Job 13:23.
When Job said that he knew himself to be righteous, he was clearly speaking of known sin; he knew, so far as a man may know himself, that he had not committed the sins of which his friends charged him. He could bare his life to the inspection of men and angels, being sure that no accusation of which human law-courts would take cognizance could be established against him. But this is a very different matter with the divine tribunal. When a fuller light had shone upon him from the face of God, when the patriarch had seen Him instead of merely hearing of Him by the ear, then he would "abhor himself and repent in dust and ashes," Job 42:5-6.
Job 13:15 is almost the greatest sentence ever uttered by mortal lips! Let us ask for grace to affirm it. [source]

Chapter Summary: Job 13

1  Job reproves his friends for partiality
14  He professes his confidence in God;
19  and entreats to know his own sins, and God's purpose in afflicting him

What do the individual words in Job 13:25 mean?

will a leaf driven to and fro You frighten and stubble dry will You pursue
הֶעָלֶ֣ה ؟ נִדָּ֣ף תַּעֲר֑וֹץ וְאֶת־ ؟ קַ֖שׁ יָבֵ֣שׁ תִּרְדֹּֽף

הֶעָלֶ֣ה  will  a  leaf 
Parse: Article, Noun, masculine singular
Root: עָלֶה  
Sense: leaf, leafage.
؟ נִדָּ֣ף  driven  to  and  fro 
Parse: Verb, Nifal, Participle, masculine singular
Root: נָדַף  
Sense: to drive, drive away, drive asunder.
תַּעֲר֑וֹץ  You  frighten 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, second person masculine singular
Root: מַעֲרָץ 
Sense: to tremble, dread, fear, oppress, prevail, break, be terrified, cause to tremble.
؟ קַ֖שׁ  stubble 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: קַשׁ  
Sense: stubble, chaff.
יָבֵ֣שׁ  dry 
Parse: Adjective, masculine singular
Root: יָבֵשׁ  
Sense: dry.
תִּרְדֹּֽף  will  You  pursue 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, second person masculine singular
Root: רָדַף  
Sense: to be behind, follow after, pursue, persecute, run after.

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