Job 21:18

Job's Seventh Speech: A Response To Zophar

¹⁷ How often is it that the lamp of the profane is put out, that their calamity comes upon them, that [God] distributes sorrows in his anger, ¹⁸ that they are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carries away? ¹⁹ [Ye say], God lays up his iniquity for his sons. Let him recompense it to himself that he may know it.

Chaff Before the Wind

Not At All

Job

Job 13:25

Will thou harass a driven leaf? And will thou pursue the dry stubble?

Psalm 1:4

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

Psalm 35:5

Let them be as chaff before the wind, and the agent of LORD driving [them] on.

Psalm 83:13

O my God, make them like the whirling dust, as stubble before the wind,

Isaiah 17:13

The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters, but he shall rebuke them. And they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.

Isaiah 29:5

But the multitude of thy foes shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones as chaff that passes away. Yea, it shall be in an instant suddenly.

Hosea 13:3

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

Exodus 15:7

And in the greatness of thine excellency thou overthrow those who rise up against thee. Thou send forth thy wrath, it consumes them as stubble.

Isaiah 5:24

Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust, because they have rejected the law of LORD of hosts, an

Isaiah 40:24

Yea, they have not been planted. Yea, they have not been sown. Yea, their stock has not taken root in the earth. Moreover he blows upon them, and they wither, and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble.

Isaiah 41:15-16

Behold, I have made thee [as] a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth. Thou shall thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shall make the hills as chaff.

Jeremiah 13:24

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

Nahum 1:10

For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly as dry stubble.

Matthew 3:12

Whose winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. And he will gather his wheat into the storehouse, but he will burn the chaff with unquenchable fire.