"Will you frighten a leaf driven to and fro, and pursue the dry chaff?" Job compares himself to a leaf, to chaff—insignificant, insubstantial, powerless. Yet God pursues him as if he were a dangerous enemy. The verse emphasizes the grotesque disproportion between Job's actual weakness and God's apparent hostility. Why would God expend such effort to torment the helpless?

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