Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
The 1611 reading
Wilt thou breake a leafe driuen to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the drie stubble?
KJV dictionary & concordance
Past-participial form of drive: impelled, forced, urged, carried, or moved onward or away.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Genesis 4:14
Complete exact-word concordance
Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
Wilt thou breake a leafe driuen to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the drie stubble?
He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
He shall be driuen from light into darkenesse, and chased out of the world.
1611 marginal noteHeb. they shall driue him.
They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)
They were driuen foorth from among men, (they cried after them, as after a thiefe.)
Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.
Let them be ashamed and confounded together, that seeke after my soule to destroy it: let them be driuen backward, and put to shame, that wish me euill.
1611 marginal notePsal.34.5. & 70.3.
As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
As smoke is driuen away, so driue them away: as waxe melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.
The sea sawe it, and fled: Iordan was driuen backe.
1611 marginal noteExod. 14.21. Iosh. 3.13.
What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back?
What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Iordan, that thou wast driuen backe?
The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.
The wicked is driuen away in his wickednes: but the righteous hath hope in his death.
And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.
And they shall looke vnto the earth: and behold trouble and darkenesse, dimnesse of anguish; and they shall be driuen to darkenesse.
The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more.
The paper reeds by the brookes, by the mouth of the brookes, and euery thing sowen by the brooks shal wither, be driuen away, and be no more.
1611 marginal noteHeb. and shall not be.
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