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A Portrait of Frailty
Commentators explain that Job uses the powerful images of a "driven leaf" and "dry stubble" to paint a picture of his own profound weakness and insignificance in the face of God's overwhelming power. He is asking if it is worthy of God to exert such might against someone so fragile and unable to resist.
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Albert Barnes
On Job 13:25
18th Century
Theologian
Will you break a leaf driven to and fro? Job here means to say that God's treatment of him was like treading down a leaf driven about by t…
Charles Ellicott
On Job 13:25
19th Century
Bishop
Wilt thou break a leaf. —His confession of sin here even approaches what the Psalmist describes as the condition of the ungodly ([Referenc…
John Gill
On Job 13:25
17th Century
Pastor
Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro ?
&c.] A leaf that falls from a tree in autumn, and withers and is rolled u…
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Matthew Henry
On Job 13:23–28
17th Century
Minister
Job begs to have his sins revealed to him. A true penitent is willing to know the worst of himself; and we should all desire to know what our trans…