Job 21:18

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.

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.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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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?

Psalms 1:4
The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
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Psalms 83:13
O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.
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Job 13:25
Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
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Psalms 35:5
Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase them.
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Isaiah 17:13
The 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.
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Jeremiah 13:24
Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness.
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Isaiah 29:5
Moreover 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.
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Matthew 3:12
Whose 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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