Psalm 1:4 - King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ The ungodly are not so: But are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.

More versions

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ 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)

⁴ The wicked are not so, But are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.

Common English Bible

⁴ That’s not true for the wicked! They are like dust that the wind blows away.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ 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

⁴ Not so the wicked, not so: but like the dust, which the wind driveth from the face of the earth.

English Standard Version 2016

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

Psalm 1:4 Cross References

Job 21:18

They are as stubble before the wind, And as chaff that the storm carrieth away.

Job 8:13

So are the paths of all that forget God; And the hypocrite's hope shall perish:

Psalm 35:5

Let them be as chaff before the wind: And let the angel of the LORD chase them.

Psalm 37:36

Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: Yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.

Isaiah 17:13

The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.

Isaiah 29:5

Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.

Jeremiah 13:24

Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness.

Hosea 13:3

Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.

Matthew 3:12

whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.