Psalms 1:4

WEB

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

KJV

⁴The ungodly^[+] are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.

BSB

⁴Not so the wicked! For they are like chaff driven off by the wind.

FBV

⁴But it's not like that for the wicked! They are like chaff, blown away by the wind.

Related Resources

The Way of the Wicked Will Perish: Psalm 1:4–6, Part 2 - Desiring God
The Righteous Are Not the Perfect: Psalm 1:4–6, Part 1 - Desiring God

Extra References

Job 21:18

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

Matthew 3:12

¹²^[+] His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.”

Psalms 35:5

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

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.

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.

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.