They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carries away.
Psalm 1:4 - King James 2000 The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind drives away. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The ungodly are not so: But are like the chaff which the wind driveth away. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) The wicked are not so, But are like the chaff which the wind driveth away. Common English Bible That’s not true for the wicked! They are like dust that the wind blows away. Catholic Public Domain Version Not so the impious, not so. For they are like the dust that the wind casts along the face of the earth. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Not so the wicked, not so: but like the dust, which the wind driveth from the face of the earth. |
They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carries away.
So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite’s hope shall perish:
Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase them.
Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
The nations shall rush like the rushing 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 a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
Moreover the multitude of your foes shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be like chaff that passes away: yea, it shall be in an instant, suddenly.
Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passes away by the wind of the wilderness.
Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passes away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.
Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the barn; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.