Job 21:18 “Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?”

Job 21:18

Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.

World English Bible

How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?

American Standard Version

That they are as stubble before the wind, And as chaff that the storm carrieth away?

Geneva Bible 1599

They shall be as stubble before the winde, and as chaffe that the storme carieth away.

Darby Translation

Do they become as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away?

Young's Literal Translation

They are as straw before wind, And as chaff a hurricane hath stolen away,

Bible in Basic English

How frequently are they as dry stems before the wind, or as grass taken away by the storm-wind?

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Cross references

“as stubble”

Psalm 1:4 Psalm 83:13 Job 13:25 Psalm 35:5 Isaiah 17:13 Isaiah 29:5

Psalm 1:4 · BSB

Not so the wicked! For they are like chaff driven off by the wind.

Psalm 83:13 · BSB

Make them like tumbleweed, O my God, like chaff before the wind.

Job 13:25 · BSB

Would You frighten a windblown leaf? Would You chase after dry chaff?

Psalm 35:5 · BSB

May they be like chaff in the wind, as the angel of the LORD drives them away.

Isaiah 17:13 · BSB

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.

Isaiah 29:5 · BSB

But your many foes will be like fine dust, the multitude of the ruthless like blowing chaff. Then suddenly, in an instant,

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

17How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? Does disaster come upon them? Does God, in His anger, apportion destruction?

19It is said that God lays up one’s punishment for his children. Let God repay the man himself, so he will know it.

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