Verse Lens · Context pointer
Job 13:25 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 25. 25Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
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Role in This Section
Job 13:25 advances the thought unit with the words “Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?.” Job presses the unit's question through “Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?”, a line that belongs to Job Requests Specific Charges.
Read It With
- Job 13:23–13:28
Read Job 13:25 with 13:23–13:28. Read alone, “Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?” could lose its speaker, the question or claim it develops, and the unit's outcome. The complete movement establishes: Job asks for the number and nature of his sins, laments divine hiddenness and pursuit, and depicts himself as decaying and moth-eaten.
Why It Needs Context
Job 13:25 depends on 13:23–13:28; isolating “Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?” would detach a poetic premise, image, response, or transition from Job and “Job Requests Specific Charges.”
Read Job 13:23–28 together
Why these verses belong together: Job 13:23–13:28 follows the pinned KJV paragraphing and holds together one sustained speech movement: “Job Requests Specific Charges.” The next unit begins with a new stanza, question sequence, scene, speaker response, or rhetorical turn.
Verse 23. 23 How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.
Verse 24. 24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?
Verse 25. 25 Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
Verse 26. 26 For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
Verse 27. 27 Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.
Verse 28. 28 And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
Continue in Context
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Read Job 13:23–13:28 — Job Requests Specific ChargesSources used for this context pointer
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Job 13:23–13:28, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Job
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Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a complete apparatus or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Job.xml, OSIS 13:23–13:28
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