Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
They shall be as straw before the wind, and as chaff the storm stole it away.
New American Standard Bible
And like
King James Version
They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
Holman Bible
like chaff
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?
Darby Translation
Do they become as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth 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,
Themes
Stubble » Figurative » Of wicked people
Wicked people » Temporal punishment of
Wicked people » Compared with » Chaff
Wicked people » Compared with » Stubble
The wicked » Compared to chaff
Wicked, the, are compared to » Chaff
Wicked, the, are compared to » Stubble
Wind » Illustrative » (chaff or stubble before,) of the wicked
Interlinear
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Smith
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 21:18
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Seventh Speech: A Response To Zophar
17 How often the light of the unjust shall be extinguished, and their destruction will come upon them. He will distribute pains in his anger. 18 They shall be as straw before the wind, and as chaff the storm stole it away. 19 God will lay up his iniquity for his sons: he will requite to him and be shall know.
Names
Cross References
Job 13:25
Wilt thou terrify the scattered leaf? and wilt thou pursue the dry straw?
Psalm 1:4
Not so the unjust: but as the chaff which the wind shall drive away.
Psalm 35:5
They shall be as chaff before the wind: and the messenger of Jehovah overthrowing.
Psalm 83:13
O my God, set them as a wheel; as straw before the wind.
Isaiah 17:13
To the nations as the tumult of many waters they shall rage, and he rebuked him and he fled from far off and was pursued as the chief of the mountains before the wind and as stubble before the whirlwind.
Isaiah 29:5
And the multitude of thy strangers was as the thin dust, and Its the chaff passing away, the multitude of the terrible ones: and it was at a moment suddenly.
Hosea 13:3
For this they shall be as the cloud of the morning, and as the early dew going way; as the chaff will be driven from the threshing-floor on the wind, and as the smoke from the chimney.
Exodus 15:7
And in the multitude of thy majesty thou wilt destroy those rising up against thee: thou wilt send forth thine anger; it shall eat them as straw.
Isaiah 5:24
For this as the tongue of fire consumes the straw, and the dry grass of flame will collapse: their root shall be as rottenness, and their flower shall go up as dust: for they rejected the law of Jehovah of armies, and the saying of the Holy One of Israel they despised.
Isaiah 40:24
Also they were not planted: also they were not sown: also their stock took not root in the earth: and he also blew upon them and they will be dried up, and the storm will lift them up as straw.
Isaiah 41:15-16
Behold, I set thee to a new cutting threshing sledge having mouths: thou thalt thresh the mountains, and beat small, and the hills thou shalt set as chaff.
Jeremiah 13:24
And I will scatter them as the straw passing away by the wind of the desert.
Nahum 1:10
For even to thorns surrounding them, and drinking to excess as drunkards, they shall be devoured as straw fully dried up.
Matthew 3:12
Whose winnowing fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor, and gather his wheat into the store; but he will burn down the chaff in inextinguishable fire.