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

“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?

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,

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 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.

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.

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