Job 21:18

New Century Version

How often are they like straw in the wind or like chaff that is blown away by a storm?

Cross References

Job 13:25

Don’t punish a leaf that is blown by the wind; don’t chase after straw.

Job 22:16

They were carried away before their time was up, and their foundations were washed away by a flood.

Job 27:21

The east wind will carry them away, and then they are gone, because it sweeps them out of their place.

Psalm 1:4

But wicked people are not like that. They are like chaff that the wind blows away.

Psalm 35:5

Make them like chaff blown by the wind as the angel of the Lord forces them away.

Psalm 83:13

My God, make them like tumbleweed, like chaff blown away by the wind.

Psalm 83:14

Be like a fire that burns a forest or like flames that blaze through the hills.

Exodus 15:7

In your great victory you destroyed those who were against you. Your anger destroyed them, like fire burning straw.

Proverbs 10:25

A storm will blow the evil person away, but a good person will always be safe.

Isaiah 17:13

The people roar like the waves, but when God speaks harshly to them, they will run away. They will be like chaff on the hills being blown by the wind, or like tumbleweeds blown away by a storm.

Isaiah 29:5

Your many enemies will become like fine dust; the many cruel people will be like chaff that is blown away. Everything will happen very quickly.

Isaiah 40:24

They are like plants that are placed in the ground, like seeds that are planted. As soon as they begin to grow strong, he blows on them and they die, and the wind blows them away like chaff.

Isaiah 5:24

They will be destroyed just as fire burns straw or dry grass. They will be destroyed like a plant whose roots rot and whose flower dies and blows away like dust. They have refused to obey the teachings of the Lord All-Powerful and have hated the message from the Holy God of Israel.

Jeremiah 13:24

“I will scatter you like chaff that is blown away by the desert wind.

Hosea 13:3

So those people will be like the morning mist; they will disappear like the morning dew. They will be like chaff blown from the threshing floor, like smoke going out a window.

Nahum 1:10

Those people will be like tangled thorns or like people drunk from their wine; they will be burned up quickly like dry weeds.

Habakkuk 3:6

He stands and shakes the earth. He looks, and the nations shake with fear. The mountains, which stood for ages, break into pieces; the old hills fall down. God has always done this.

Matthew 3:12

He will come ready to clean the grain, separating the good grain from the chaff. He will put the good part of the grain into his barn, but he will burn the chaff with a fire that cannot be put out.”

1 Corinthians 3:12

But if people build on that foundation, using gold, silver, jewels, wood, grass, or straw,