Job 21:18

WEB

¹⁸How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?

KJV

¹⁸They are as stubble^[+] before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.

BSB

¹⁸Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?

FBV

¹⁸Are they blown along like straw in the wind? Does a tornado come in and carry them away?

Extra References

Psalms 1:4

⁴The wicked are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.

Psalms 83:13

¹³My God, make them like tumbleweed, like chaff before the wind.

Psalms 35:5

⁵Let them be as chaff before the wind, the LORD’s angel driving them on.

Job 13:25

²⁵Will you harass a driven leaf? Will you pursue the dry stubble?

¹³The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters, but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far off, and will be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.

Jeremiah 13:24

²⁴“Therefore I will scatter them as the stubble that passes away by the wind of the wilderness.

Isaiah 29:5

⁵But the multitude of your foes will be like fine dust, and the multitude of the ruthless ones like chaff that blows away. Yes, it will be in an instant, suddenly.

Nahum 1:10

¹⁰For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.

Exodus 15:7

⁷In the greatness of your excellency, you overthrow those who rise up against you. You send out your wrath. It consumes them as stubble.

Hosea 13:3

³Therefore they will be like the morning mist, like the dew that passes away early, like the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing floor, and like the smoke out of the chimney.