Job 21:18

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They are like straw before the wind and like chaff carried away by a storm.

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  • Ps 1:4 : 4 Not so the wicked! They are like chaff that the wind drives away.
  • Ps 35:5 : 5 Let them be like chaff before the wind, as the angel of the Lord drives them away.
  • Ps 83:13 : 13 who said, 'Let us take possession of the pastures of God for ourselves.'
  • Job 13:25 : 25 Will You terrify a wind-driven leaf and pursue dry chaff?
  • Isa 17:13 : 13 The nations roar like the crashing of mighty waters, but He rebukes them, and they flee far away. They are driven like chaff on the mountains before the wind, like tumbleweed before a storm.
  • Isa 29:5 : 5 But the horde of your enemies will be like fine dust, and the horde of the ruthless ones will be like blowing chaff. Suddenly, in an instant,
  • Hos 13:3 : 3 Therefore, they will be like the morning cloud, like dew that vanishes early, like chaff blown away from the threshing floor, and like smoke escaping through a window.
  • Nah 1:10 : 10 Though they are entangled in thorns and drunk from their wine, they will be consumed like dry stubble.
  • Matt 3:12 : 12 His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.
  • Exod 15:7 : 7 In the greatness of Your majesty, You overthrow those who rise against You. You unleash Your burning anger; it consumes them like stubble.
  • Isa 40:24 : 24 No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner do they take root in the ground, than He blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind sweeps them away like chaff.
  • Isa 41:15-16 : 15 See, I will make you into a sharp threshing sledge, new and covered with many blades. You will thresh the mountains and crush them and reduce the hills to chaff. 16 You will winnow them, and the wind will carry them away; a gale will scatter them. But you will rejoice in the Lord and glory in the Holy One of Israel.
  • Jer 13:24 : 24 Therefore, I will scatter them like chaff driven by the wind of the desert.
  • Isa 5:24 : 24 Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes stubble and as dry grass sinks in the flame, so their roots will decay and their blossoms will blow away like dust. For they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of Hosts and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel.

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    3Therefore, they will be like the morning cloud, like dew that vanishes early, like chaff blown away from the threshing floor, and like smoke escaping through a window.

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    13who said, 'Let us take possession of the pastures of God for ourselves.'

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    4Not so the wicked! They are like chaff that the wind drives away.

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    24No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner do they take root in the ground, than He blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind sweeps them away like chaff.

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    24Therefore, I will scatter them like chaff driven by the wind of the desert.

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    10Though they are entangled in thorns and drunk from their wine, they will be consumed like dry stubble.

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    5Let them be like chaff before the wind, as the angel of the Lord drives them away.

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