Job 21:18

Job's Seventh Speech: A Response To Zophar

¹⁷ How often is the lamp of the wicked put out?
Does disaster come on them?
Does He apportion destruction in His anger?
¹⁸ Are they like straw before the wind,
like chaff a storm sweeps away?
¹⁹ God reserves a person’s punishment for his children.
Let God repay the person himself, so that he may know it.

Chaff Before the Wind

Not At All

Job

Job 13:25

Will You frighten a wind-driven leaf?
Will You chase after dry straw?

Psalm 1:4

The wicked are not like this;
instead, they are like chaff that the wind blows away.

Psalm 35:5

Let them be like chaff in the wind,
with the angel of the Lord driving them away.

Psalm 83:13

Make them like tumbleweed, my God,
like straw before the wind.

Isaiah 17:13

The nations rage like the raging of many waters.
He rebukes them, and they flee far away,
driven before the wind like chaff on the hills
and like tumbleweeds before a gale.

Isaiah 29:5

Your many foes will be like fine dust,
and many of the ruthless, like blowing chaff.
Then suddenly, in an instant,

Hosea 13:3

Therefore, they will be like the morning mist,
like the early dew that vanishes,
like chaff blown from a threshing floor,
or like smoke from a window.

Exodus 15:7

You overthrew Your adversaries
by Your great majesty.
You unleashed Your burning wrath;
it consumed them like stubble.

Isaiah 5:24

Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes straw
and as dry grass shrivels in the flame,
so their roots will become like something rotten
and their blossoms will blow away like dust,
for they have rejected
the instruction of the Lord of Hosts,
and they have despised
the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 40:24

They are barely planted, barely sown,
their stem hardly takes root in the ground
when He blows on them and they wither,
and a whirlwind carries them away like stubble.

Isaiah 41:15-16

See, I will make you into a sharp threshing board,
new, with many teeth.
You will thresh mountains and pulverize them
and make hills into chaff.

Jeremiah 13:24

I will scatter you like drifting chaff
before the desert wind.

Nahum 1:10

For they will be consumed
like entangled thorns,
like the drink of a drunkard
and like straw that is fully dry.

Matthew 3:12

His winnowing shovel is in His hand, and He will clear His threshing floor and gather His wheat into the barn. But the chaff He will burn up with fire that never goes out.”