Job 21:18

King James Version 1611 (Original)

They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.

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  • Ps 1:4 : 4 The ungodly 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 let the angel of the LORD chase them.
  • Ps 83:13 : 13 O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.
  • Job 13:25 : 25 Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
  • Isa 17:13 : 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 as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
  • Isa 29:5 : 5 Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.
  • Hos 13:3 : 3 Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.
  • Nah 1:10 : 10 For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
  • Matt 3:12 : 12 Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
  • Exod 15:7 : 7 And in the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee: thou sentest forth thy wrath, which consumed them as stubble.
  • Isa 40:24 : 24 Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.
  • Isa 41:15-16 : 15 Behold, I will make thee 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 fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the LORD, and 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 fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 3 Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.

  • Ps 83:13-15
    3 verses
    80%

    13 O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.

    14 As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;

    15 So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.

  • 17 How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.

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    4 The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.

  • 24 Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.

  • 7 For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.

  • 9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.

  • 24 Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness.

  • 21 The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.

  • 10 For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.

  • 5 Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase them.

  • 24 They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.

  • 14 Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it.

  • 11 Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, as fire, shall devour you.

  • Job 4:19-20
    2 verses
    75%

    19 How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?

    20 They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.

  • Job 4:8-9
    2 verses
    75%

    8 Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.

    9 By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.

  • 24 Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

  • 19 Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked.

  • 2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.

  • 18 For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.

  • Job 6:17-18
    2 verses
    74%

    17 What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

    18 The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.

  • 30 That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.

  • 8 In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.

  • 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 as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.

  • 21 And now men see not the bright light which is in the clouds: but the wind passeth, and cleanseth them.

  • 25 Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?

  • 23 Behold, the whirlwind of the LORD goeth forth with fury, a continuing whirlwind: it shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked.

  • 17 I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.

  • 20 Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.

  • 19 How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.

  • 16 For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.

  • 27 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.

  • 6 Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:

  • 25 As the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no more: but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.

  • 2 As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.

  • 18 He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.

  • 42 Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.

  • 26 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.

  • 7 When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:

  • 17 The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.

  • 27 When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.

  • 16 His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.

  • 16 It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.

  • 18 They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

  • 5 Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.