Job 21:18

Translations

Modern

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

Traditional

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

Literal

They become like straw before the face of the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries him away.

Latin

Erunt sicut paleæ ante faciem venti, et sicut favilla quam turbo dispergit.

Interlinear

Hebrew

English

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

Events

Job's Trialc. 1650 BC

Related verses

Psalm 1:4
Not so the wicked! For they are like chaff driven off by the wind.
Psalm 83:13
Make them like tumbleweed, O my God, like chaff before the wind.
Psalm 35:5
May they be like chaff in the wind, as the angel of the LORD drives them away.
Job 13:25
Would You frighten a windblown leaf? Would You chase after dry chaff?
Isaiah 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.
Isaiah 29:5
But your many foes will be like fine dust, the multitude of the ruthless like blowing chaff. Then suddenly, in an instant,
Jeremiah 13:24
“I will scatter you like chaff driven by the desert wind.
Isaiah 5:24
Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes the straw, and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will decay and their blossoms will blow away like dust; for they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of Hosts and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
Exodus 15:7
You overthrew Your adversaries by Your great majesty. You unleashed Your burning wrath; it consumed them like stubble.
Isaiah 40:24
No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner have their stems taken root in the ground, than He blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind sweeps them away like stubble.
Isaiah 41:15–16
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.
Matthew 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.”

Glossary

Book of Job Poor, the Proverbs, Book of

Topics

Chaff: Figurative Death of the Wicked Stubble of Wicked People The Wicked are Compared to Chaff The Wicked are Compared to Stubble The Wind: (Chaff or Stubble Before) of the Wicked The Wind: when Violent Called: Storm Wicked (People): Compared With: Chaff Wicked (People): Compared With: Stubble Wicked (People): Punishment of Wicked (People): Temporal Punishment of

Job 21:18

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