Job 21:18
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?”
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BSBPD
“Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“That they are as stubble before the wind, And as chaff that the storm carrieth away?”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“They are as straw before wind, And as chaff a hurricane hath stolen away,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Job 21:18 — 16 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 15:7You overthrew Your adversaries by Your great majesty. You unleashed Your burning wrath; it consumed them like stubble.
- Job 13:25Would You frighten a windblown leaf? Would You chase after dry chaff?
- Job 27:21The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.
- Psalms 1:4Not so the wicked! For they are like chaff driven off by the wind.
- Psalms 35:5May they be like chaff in the wind, as the angel of the LORD drives them away.
- Psalms 83:13Make them like tumbleweed, O my God, like chaff before the wind.
- Psalms 83:14As fire consumes a forest, as a flame sets the mountains ablaze,
- Isaiah 5:24Therefore, 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.
- Isaiah 17:13The 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 29:5But your many foes will be like fine dust, the multitude of the ruthless like blowing chaff. Then suddenly, in an instant,
- Isaiah 40:24No 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 41:15Behold, 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.
- Jeremiah 13:24“I will scatter you like chaff driven by the desert wind.
- Hosea 13:3Therefore 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.
- Nahum 1:10For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard— like stubble that is fully dry.
- Matthew 3:12His 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.”
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
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