Job 21:18

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

That they are as stubble before the wind, And as chaff that the storm carrieth away?

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יִהְי֗וּ כְּתֶ֥בֶן לִפְנֵי־ר֑וּחַ וּ֝כְמֹ֗ץ גְּנָבַ֥תּוּ סוּפָֽה׃

Transliteration

yihyû kəteben lipnê-rûaḥ û-kəmōṣ gənābattû sûpâ

Grammar Details

*yihyû*: Qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural - they are
*kəteben*: preposition + noun masculine singular - like straw/chaff
*lipnê*: preposition + noun plural construct - before
*rûaḥ*: noun feminine singular - wind
*û-kəmōṣ*: conjunctive waw + preposition + noun masculine singular - and like chaff
*gənābattû*: Qal perfect, 3rd person feminine singular with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - steals it
*sûpâ*: noun feminine singular - storm/whirlwind

Word Meanings

*hāyâ*: to be/become/exist
*teben*: straw/chaff/stubble
*pānîm*: face/presence
*rûaḥ*: wind/breath/spirit
*mōṣ*: chaff
*gānab*: to steal/carry away
*sûpâ*: storm/whirlwind/tempest

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Referenced Verses

Ps 1:4 : 4 The wicked are not so, But are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
Ps 35:5 : 5 Let them be as chaff before the wind, And the angel of Jehovah driving [them] on.
Ps 83:13 : 13 O my God, make them like the whirling dust; As stubble before the wind.
Job 13:25 : 25 Wilt thou harass a driven leaf? And wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
Isa 17:13 : 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.
Isa 29:5 : 5 But the multitude of thy foes shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be in an instant suddenly.
Hos 13:3 : 3 Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the dew that passeth early away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing-floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.
Nah 1:10 : 10 For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly as dry stubble.
Matt 3:12 : 12 whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing-floor; and he will gather his wheat into the garner, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.
Exod 15:7 : 7 And in the greatness of thine excellency thou overthrowest them that rise up against thee: Thou sendest forth thy wrath, it consumeth them as stubble.
Isa 40:24 : 24 Yea, they have not been planted; yea, they have not been sown; yea, their stock hath not taken root in the earth: moreover he bloweth upon them, and they wither, and the whirlwind taketh them away as stubble.
Isa 41:15-16 : 15 Behold, I have made thee [to be] a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth; thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff. 16 Thou shalt winnow them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them; and thou shalt rejoice in Jehovah, thou shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.
Jer 13:24 : 24 Therefore will I scatter them, as the stubble that passeth away, by the wind of the wilderness.
Isa 5:24 : 24 Therefore as the tongue of fire devoureth the stubble, and as the dry grass sinketh 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 Jehovah of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

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