Job 21:18 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁸ How often are they like straw before the wind and like chaff that the storm carries away?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ They are as stubble before the wind, And as chaff that the storm carrieth away.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ That they are like stubble before the wind and like chaff that the storm steals and carries away?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ That they are as stubble before the wind, And as chaff that the storm carrieth away?

Common English Bible

¹⁸ Let them be like straw in the wind, like dry grass stolen by a storm.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ They will be like chaff before the face of the wind, and like ashes that the whirlwind scatters.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁸ They shall be as chaff before the face of the wind, and as ashes which the whirlwind scattereth.

Job 21:18 Cross References

Job 13:25

Will you frighten a windblown leaf and pursue dry chaff?

Job 22:16

They were snatched away before their time; their foundation was washed away by a flood.

Job 27:21

The east wind lifts them up, and they are gone; it sweeps them out of their place.

Psalm 1:4

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

Psalm 35:5

Let them be like chaff before the wind, with the angel of the Lord driving them on.

Psalm 83:13

O my God, make them like whirling dust, like chaff before the wind.

Psalm 83:14

As fire consumes the forest, as the flame sets the mountains ablaze,

Exodus 15:7

In the greatness of your majesty you overthrew your adversaries; you sent out your fury; it consumed them like stubble.

Proverbs 10:25

When the tempest passes, the wicked are no more, but the righteous are established forever.

Isaiah 17:13

[[When the nations roar like the roaring of many waters,]] he will rebuke them, and they will flee far away, chased like chaff on the mountains before the wind and like whirling dust before the storm.

Isaiah 29:5

But the multitude of your arrogant ones shall be like fine dust and the multitude of tyrants like flying chaff. And in an instant, suddenly,

Isaiah 40:24

Scarcely are they planted, scarcely sown, scarcely has their stem taken root in the earth, when he blows upon them, and they wither, and the tempest carries them off like stubble.

Isaiah 5:24

Therefore, as the tongue of fire devours the stubble and as dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root will become rotten, and their blossom go up like dust, for they have rejected the instruction of the Lord of hosts and have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Jeremiah 13:24

I will scatter you like chaff driven by the wind from the desert.

Hosea 13:3

Therefore they shall be like the morning mist or like the dew that goes away early, like chaff that swirls from the threshing floor or like smoke from a window.

Nahum 1:10

Like thorns they are entangled; like drunkards they are drunk; they are consumed like dry straw.

Habakkuk 3:6

He stopped and shook the earth; he looked and made the nations tremble. The eternal mountains were shattered; along his ancient pathways the everlasting hills sank low.

Matthew 3:12

His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and will gather his wheat into the granary, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.”

1 Corinthians 3:12

Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw—