Parallel Verses

Darby Translation

Do they become as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away?

New American Standard Bible

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

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

Are they like straw before the wind,
like chaff a storm sweeps away?

International Standard Version

May they become like a straw, blown away before the wind; like a chaff that's swept off by a storm.

A Conservative Version

that they are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carries away?

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


“Are they like straw before the wind,
And like chaff that the storm steals and carries away?

Bible in Basic English

How frequently are they as dry stems before the wind, or as grass taken away by the storm-wind?

Julia Smith Translation

They shall be as straw before the wind, and as chaff the storm stole it away.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

[How often] are they like straw {before} the wind, and like chaff that [the] storm carries away?

Modern King James verseion

they are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm steals away.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Yea, they shall be even as chaff before the wind, and as dust that the storm carrieth away.

NET Bible

How often are they like straw before the wind, and like chaff swept away by a whirlwind?

New Heart English Bible

How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?

The Emphasized Bible

They become as straw before the wind, and as chaff, which the storm stealeth away.

Webster

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

World English Bible

How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?

Youngs Literal Translation

They are as straw before wind, And as chaff a hurricane hath stolen away,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
תּבן 
Teben 
Usage: 17

פּנים 
Paniym 
Usage: 2119

the wind
רוּח 
Ruwach 
Usage: 378

and as chaff
מוץ מץ 
Mots 
Usage: 8

that the storm
סוּפה 
Cuwphah 
Usage: 16

References

Context Readings

Job's Seventh Speech: A Response To Zophar

17 How often is the lamp of the wicked put out, and cometh their calamity upon them? Doth he distribute sorrows to them in his anger? 18 Do they become as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away? 19 +God layeth up the punishment of his iniquity for his children; he rewardeth him, and he shall know it:

Cross References

Job 13:25

Wilt thou terrify a driven leaf? and wilt thou pursue dry stubble?

Psalm 1:4

The wicked are not so; but are as the chaff which the wind driveth away.

Psalm 35:5

Let them be as chaff before the wind, and let the angel of Jehovah drive them away;

Psalm 83:13

O my God, make them like a whirling thing, like stubble before the wind.

Isaiah 17:13

The nations rush as the rushing of many waters; but he will rebuke them, and they shall flee far away, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a whirling of dust before the whirlwind:

Isaiah 29:5

And the multitude of thine enemies shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones as chaff that passeth away; and it shall be in an instant, suddenly.

Hosea 13:3

Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing-floor, and as the smoke out of the lattice.

Exodus 15:7

And by the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown thine adversaries: Thou sentest forth thy burning wrath, it consumed them as stubble.

Isaiah 5:24

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

Isaiah 40:24

Scarcely are they planted, scarcely are they sown, scarcely hath their stock taken root in the earth, but he also bloweth upon them and they wither, and the whirlwind taketh them away as stubble.

Isaiah 41:15-16

Behold, I have made of thee a new sharp threshing instrument having double teeth: thou shalt thresh and beat small the mountains, and shalt make the hills as chaff;

Jeremiah 13:24

And I will scatter them as stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness.

Nahum 1:10

Though they be tangled together as thorns, and be as drenched from their drink, they shall be devoured as dry stubble, completely.

Matthew 3:12

whose winnowing fan is in his hand, and he shall thoroughly purge his threshing-floor, and shall gather his wheat into the garner, but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.

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