Psalms 1:4
2 But his delight is in the Law of the LORD, and on His law he meditates day and night.
3 He is like a tree planted by streams of water, yielding its fruit in season, whose leaf does not wither, and who prospers in all he does.
Not so the wicked! For they are like chaff driven off by the wind.
5 Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.
6 For the LORD guards the path of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Not so the wicked! For they are like chaff driven off by the wind.
- KJV
- The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
- WEB
- The wicked are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.
- ASV
- The wicked are not so, But are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
- DARBY
- The wicked are not so; but are as the chaff which the wind driveth away.
- BLB
- Not so the wicked! But rather [they are] like the chaff, which the wind drives away.
- ÅB
- Slik er det ikke med de ugudelige,
for de blir spredt som agner for vinden. - OTB
- De ugudelige er ikke slik,
Men de ligner agner som vinden driver bort. - B1930
- Ikke så de ugudelige, men de er lik agner, som spredes av vinden.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 21:18
Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?
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.”
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 contextHosea 13:3
Therefore they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes, like chaff blown from a threshing floor, like smoke through an open window.
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,
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