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Will you harass a driven leaf? Will you pursue the dry stubble?
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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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Job
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18th Century
Presbyterian
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…
19th Century
Anglican
Wilt thou break a leaf. —His confession of sin here even approaches what the Psalmist describes as the condition of the ungodly ([Referenc…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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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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…
13th Century
Catholic
After correcting the reasoning of his friends, who tried to defend divine justice with lies, Job now proceeds to dismantle their false dogmas in th…
