Job 21:18
16 Still, their prosperity is not in their own hands, so I stay far from the counsel of the wicked.
17 How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? Does disaster come upon them? Does God, in His anger, apportion destruction?
Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?
19 It is said that God lays up one’s punishment for his children. Let God repay the man himself, so he will know it.
20 Let his eyes see his own destruction; let him drink for himself the wrath of the Almighty.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?
- KJV
- They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
- WEB
- How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?
- ASV
- That they are as stubble before the wind, And as chaff that the storm carrieth away?
- DARBY
- Do they become as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away?
- BLB
- They become like straw before the face of the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries him away.
- ÅB
- Hvor ofte blir de vel som strå for vinden, som agner stormen fører bort?
- OTB
- Er de som halm for vinden,
som agner feid bort av en storm? - B1930
- Hvor ofte blir de vel som strå for vinden, som agner stormen fører bort?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 1:4
Not so the wicked! For they are like chaff driven off by the wind.
Read in contextPsalms 83:13
Make them like tumbleweed, O my God, like chaff before the wind.
Read in contextJob 13:25
Would You frighten a windblown leaf? Would You chase after dry chaff?
Read in contextPsalms 35:5
May they be like chaff in the wind, as the angel of the LORD drives them away.
Read in contextIsaiah 17:13
The nations rage like the rush of many waters. He rebukes them, and they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills, like tumbleweeds before a gale.
Read in contextJeremiah 13:24
“I will scatter you like chaff driven by the desert wind.
Read in contextIsaiah 29:5
But your many foes will be like fine dust, the multitude of the ruthless like blowing chaff. Then suddenly, in an instant,
Read in contextMatthew 3:12
His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
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