Job 21:18 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

Wilt thou harass a driven leaf? And wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?

Job 22:16

Who were snatched away before their time, Whose foundation was poured out as a stream:

Job 27:21

The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth; And it sweepeth him out of his place.

Psalm 1:4

The wicked are not so; But are like the chaff which the wind driveth away

Psalm 35:5

Let them be as chaff before the wind, And the angel of the LORD driving them on.

Psalm 83:13

O my God, make them like the whirling dust; As stubble before the wind.

Psalm 83:14

As the fire that burneth the forest, And as the flame that setteth the mountains on fire;

Exodus 15:7

And in the greatness of thine excellency thou overthrowest them that rise up against thee: Thou sendest forth thy wrath, it consumeth them as stubble.

Proverbs 10:25

When the whirlwind passeth, the wicked is no more: But the righteous is an everlasting foundation.

Isaiah 17:13

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.

Isaiah 29:5

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.

Isaiah 40:24

Yea, they have not been planted; yea, they have not been sown; yea, their stock hath not taken root in the earth: moreover he bloweth upon them, and they wither, and the whirlwind taketh them away as stubble.

Isaiah 5:24

Therefore as the tongue of fire devoureth the stubble, and as the dry grass sinketh down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have rejected the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

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 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.

Nahum 1:10

For though they be like tangled thorns, told be drenched as it were in their drink, they shall be devoured utterly as dry stubble.

Habakkuk 3:6

He stood, and measured the earth; He beheld, and drove asunder the nations: And the eternal mountains were scattered, The everlasting hills did bow; His goings were as of old.

Matthew 3:12

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.

1 Corinthians 3:12

But if any man buildeth on the foundation gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, stubble;