Psalm 1:4 “Not so the wicked! For they are like chaff driven off by the wind.”

Psalm 1:4

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.

World English Bible

The wicked are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.

American Standard Version

The wicked are not so, But are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.

Geneva Bible 1599

The wicked are not so, but as the chaffe, which the winde driueth away.

Darby Translation

The wicked are not so; but are as the chaff which the wind driveth away.

Young's Literal Translation

Not so the wicked: But — as chaff that wind driveth away!

Bible in Basic English

The evil-doers are not so; but are like the dust from the grain, which the wind takes away.

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Cross references

“like”

Job 21:18 Matthew 3:12 Psalm 35:5 Isaiah 17:13 Isaiah 29:5 Hosea 13:3

Job 21:18 · BSB

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

Matthew 3:12 · BSB

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.”

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,

Hosea 13:3 · BSB

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.

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

In context

3He 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.

5Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.

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