Job 21:18

Modern English Version

They are like straw before the wind, and like chaff that a storm carries away.

Cross References

Job 13:25

Will You frighten a leaf driven to and fro? And will You pursue dry stubble?

Job 22:16

They were cut down before their time; their foundations were swept away by a flood.

Job 27:21

The east wind carries him away, and he departs; it sweeps him out of his place.

Psalm 1:4

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

Psalm 35:5

Let them be like chaff before the wind, and let the angel of the Lord drive them away.

Psalm 83:13

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

Psalm 83:14

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

Exodus 15:7

In the greatness of Your excellence, You overthrow those who rise up against You. You send out Your wrath; it consumes them like stubble.

Proverbs 10:25

When the tempest passes, the wicked is no more, but the righteous stands firm forever.

Isaiah 17:13

The nations rumble like the rumbling 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 rolling dust before the whirlwind.

Isaiah 29:5

Moreover the multitude of your enemies shall become like fine dust, and the multitude of the ruthless ones as chaff which blows away; and it shall happen in an instant, suddenly.

Isaiah 40:24

Scarcely shall they be planted; scarcely shall they be sown; scarcely shall their tree take root in the earth, when He will also blow on them, and they will wither, and the whirlwind will take them away as stubble.

Isaiah 5:24

Therefore, as the fire devours the stubble and the flame consumes the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust; because they have cast away the law of the Lord of Hosts and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Jeremiah 13:24

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

Hosea 13:3

Therefore they will be like the morning cloud, or like the early dew that passes away, like chaff blown off the threshing floor, or like the smoke from a chimney.

Nahum 1:10

Because they are like interwoven thorns and as drunkards imbibing, they are consumed like completely dry stubble.

Habakkuk 3:6

He stood and measured the earth; He looked and shook the nations. The eternal mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills bowed. His ways are everlasting.

Matthew 3:12

His winnowing fork is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clean His floor and gather His wheat into the granary, but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

1 Corinthians 3:12

Now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or stubble,