Psalm 1:4 - Psalms of David in Metre 1650 (Scottish Psalter)

The wicked are not so; But like they are unto the chaff, which wind drives to and fro.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

The ungodly are not so: But are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Not so the wicked [those disobedient and living without God are not so]. But they are like the chaff [worthless, dead, without substance] which the wind drives away.

American Standard Version (1901)

The wicked are not so, But are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.

Common English Bible

That’s not true for the wicked! They are like dust that the wind blows away.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Not so the impious, not so. For they are like the dust that the wind casts along the face of the earth.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Not so the wicked, not so: but like the dust, which the wind driveth from the face of the earth.

Psalm 1:4 Cross References

Psalm 35:5

Let them be like unto the chaff that flies before the wind; And let the angel of the Lord pursue them hard behind.

Psalm 37:36

He pass'd, yea, was not; him I sought, but found he could not be.