Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
they are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm steals 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?
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 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
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 21:18
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Seventh Speech: A Response To Zophar
17 How often is the lamp of the wicked put out, and their trouble comes on them! He shares out pains in His anger; 18 they are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm steals away. 19 God lays up his iniquity for his children. He repays him, and he knows.
Names
Cross References
Job 13:25
Will You terrify a leaf driven to and fro? Will You pursue the dry stubble?
Psalm 1:4
The wicked are not so, but are like chaff which the wind drives 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 wheel; like the stubble before the wind.
Isaiah 17:13
The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters; but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
Isaiah 29:5
And the multitude of your strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passes away; yea, it shall be at an instant, suddenly.
Hosea 13:3
Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud and as the early dew that passes away, as the chaff storm-driven out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.
Exodus 15:7
And in the greatness of Your excellency You have overthrown them that rose up against You. You sent forth Your wrath, consuming them like stubble.
Isaiah 5:24
So, as the fire devours the stubble, and the flame burns up the chaff; their root shall be like rottenness, and their blossoms shall go up like dust, because they have cast away the Law of Jehovah of Hosts, and despised the Word of the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 40:24
Yes, they shall not be planted; yes, they shall not be sown. Yes, their stump shall not take root in the earth. And He shall also blow on them, and they shall wither, and the tempest shall take them away like stubble.
Isaiah 41:15-16
Behold, I make you a new sharp threshing instrument, a master of teeth; you shall thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shall make the hills like chaff.
Jeremiah 13:24
And I will scatter them as the stubble that passes away by the wind of the wilderness.
Nahum 1:10
For as thorns are woven together, and as their drunkards are drunken, they shall be devoured like stubble fully dry.
Matthew 3:12
whose fan is in His hand, and He will cleanse His floor and gather His wheat into the storehouse; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.