Job 21:18 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁸ That they are 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.

Job 21:18 Cross References

Job 13:25

Wilt thou frighten a driven leaf and pursue dry chaff?

Job 22:16

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

Job 27:21

The east wind lifts him up and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.

Psalm 1:4

The wicked are not so, but are like chaff which 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 thy majesty thou overthrowest thy adversaries; thou sendest forth thy fury, it consumes them like stubble.

Proverbs 10:25

When the tempest passes, the wicked is no more, but the righteous is established for ever.

Isaiah 17:13

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

Isaiah 29:5

But the multitude of your foes shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the ruthless like passing 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 be as rottenness, and their blossom go up like dust; for they have rejected the law 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 early away, like the chaff that swirls from the threshing floor or like smoke from a window.

Nahum 1:10

Like entangled thorns they are consumed, like dry stubble.

Habakkuk 3:6

He stood and measured the earth; he looked and shook the nations; then the eternal mountains were scattered, the everlasting hills sank low. His ways were as of old.

Matthew 3:12

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

1 Corinthians 3:12

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