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

⁴ 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

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

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.

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.