That they are as stubble before the wind, And as chaff that the storm carrieth away?
Psalm 1:4 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 The wicked are not so; But are like the chaff which the wind driveth away More versionsKing 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. |
That they are as stubble before the wind, And as chaff that the storm carrieth away?
So are the paths of all that forget God; And the hope of the godless man shall perish:
Let them be as chaff before the wind, And the angel of the LORD driving them on.
But one passed by, and, lo, he was not: Yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but he shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.
But the multitude of they foes shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.
Therefore will I scatter them, as the stubble that passeth away, by the wind of the wilderness.
Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the dew that passeth early away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing-floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.
whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly cleanse his threshing-floor; and he will gather his wheat into the garner, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.