KJV King James Version
They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
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Job 21:18
They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?
WEB World English Bible
How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?
ASV American Standard Version
That they are as stubble before the wind, And as chaff that the storm carrieth away?
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
They are as straw before wind, And as chaff a hurricane hath stolen away,
Surrounding context — Job 21
15 What [is] the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
16 Lo, their good [is] not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
17 How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and [how oft] cometh their destruction upon them! [God] distributeth sorrows in his anger.
18 They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
19 God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know [it].
20 His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
21 For what pleasure [hath] he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?
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Psalm 1:4The ungodly [are] not so: but [are] like the chaff which the wind driveth away.Psalm 83:13O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.Psalm 35:5Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase [them].Job 13:25Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?Isaiah 17:13The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but [God] shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.Jeremiah 13:24Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness.Isaiah 29:5Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones [shall be] as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.Isaiah 5:24Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, [so] their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.Exodus 15:7And in the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee: thou sentest forth thy wrath, [which] consumed them as stubble.Isaiah 40:24Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.Hosea 13:3Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff [that] is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.Isaiah 41:15-16Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat [them] small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.Nahum 1:10For while [they be] folden together [as] thorns, and while they are drunken [as] drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.Matthew 3:12Whose fan [is] in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
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