Job 21:18

“Are they as straw before the wind,
And like chaff which the storm carries away?

Job 13:25

“Will You cause a driven leaf to tremble?
Or will You pursue the dry chaff?

Psalm 1:4

The wicked are not so,
But they 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 the whirling dust,
Like chaff before the wind.

Isaiah 17:13

The nations rumble on like the rumbling of many waters,
But He will rebuke them and they will flee far away,
And be chased like chaff in the mountains before the wind,
Or like whirling dust before a gale.

Isaiah 29:5

But the multitude of your enemies will become like fine dust,
And the multitude of the ruthless ones like the chaff which blows away;
And it will happen instantly, suddenly.

Hosea 13:3

Therefore they will be like the morning cloud
And like dew which soon disappears,
Like chaff which is blown away from the threshing floor
And like smoke from a chimney.

Exodus 15:7

“And in the greatness of Your excellence You overthrow those who rise up against You;
You send forth Your burning anger, and it consumes them as chaff.

Isaiah 5:24

Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes stubble
And dry grass collapses into the flame,
So their root will become like rot and their blossom blow away as dust;
For they have rejected the law of the Lord of hosts
And despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 40:24

Scarcely have they been planted,
Scarcely have they been sown,
Scarcely has their stock taken root in the earth,
But He merely blows on them, and they wither,
And the storm carries them away like stubble.

Isaiah 41:15-16

“Behold, I have made you a new, sharp threshing sledge with double edges;
You will thresh the mountains and pulverize them,
And will make the hills like chaff.

Jeremiah 13:24

“Therefore I will scatter them like drifting straw
To the desert wind.

Nahum 1:10

Like tangled thorns,
And like those who are drunken with their drink,
They are consumed
As stubble completely withered.

Matthew 3:12

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.

Bible References

As stubble

Job 13:25
“Will You cause a driven leaf to tremble?
Or will You pursue the dry chaff?
Exodus 15:7
“And in the greatness of Your excellence You overthrow those who rise up against You;
You send forth Your burning anger, and it consumes them as chaff.
Psalm 1:4
The wicked are not so,
But they 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 the whirling dust,
Like chaff before the wind.
Isaiah 5:24
Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes stubble
And dry grass collapses into the flame,
So their root will become like rot and their blossom blow away as dust;
For they have rejected the law of the Lord of hosts
And despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 17:13
The nations rumble on like the rumbling of many waters,
But He will rebuke them and they will flee far away,
And be chased like chaff in the mountains before the wind,
Or like whirling dust before a gale.
Isaiah 29:5
But the multitude of your enemies will become like fine dust,
And the multitude of the ruthless ones like the chaff which blows away;
And it will happen instantly, suddenly.
Isaiah 40:24
Scarcely have they been planted,
Scarcely have they been sown,
Scarcely has their stock taken root in the earth,
But He merely blows on them, and they wither,
And the storm carries them away like stubble.
Isaiah 41:15
“Behold, I have made you a new, sharp threshing sledge with double edges;
You will thresh the mountains and pulverize them,
And will make the hills like chaff.
Jeremiah 13:24
“Therefore I will scatter them like drifting straw
To the desert wind.
Hosea 13:3
Therefore they will be like the morning cloud
And like dew which soon disappears,
Like chaff which is blown away from the threshing floor
And like smoke from a chimney.
Nahum 1:10
Like tangled thorns,
And like those who are drunken with their drink,
They are consumed
As stubble completely withered.
Matthew 3:12
His winnowing fork is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clear His threshing floor; and He will gather His wheat into the barn, but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

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