Job 21:18
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They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?
In other translations
They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?
Hebrew words
Word by word from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew reads right to left.
Related verses
- Psalm 1:4The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.Not so the wicked! For they are like chaff driven off by the wind.
- Psalm 83:13O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.Make them like tumbleweed, O my God, like chaff before the wind.
- Psalm 35:5Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase them.May they be like chaff in the wind, as the angel of the LORD drives them away.
- Job 13:25Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?Would You frighten a windblown leaf? Would You chase after dry chaff?
- Isaiah 17:13The 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.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 29:5Moreover 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.But your many foes will be like fine dust, the multitude of the ruthless like blowing chaff. Then suddenly, in an instant,
- Jeremiah 13:24Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness.“I will scatter you like chaff driven by the desert wind.
- Nahum 1:10For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard— like stubble that is fully dry.
- Isaiah 41:15-1615 Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff. 16 Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the Lord, and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.15 Behold, I will make you into a threshing sledge, new and sharp, with many teeth. You will thresh the mountains and crush them, and reduce the hills to chaff. 16 You will winnow them, and a wind will carry them away; a gale will scatter them. But you will rejoice in the LORD; you will glory in the Holy One of Israel.
- Exodus 15:7And in the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee: thou sentest forth thy wrath, which consumed them as stubble.You overthrew Your adversaries by Your great majesty. You unleashed Your burning wrath; it consumed them like stubble.
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