Job 21:18

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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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  • Hos 13:3
    81%

    3Therefore 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%

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

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

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

  • Job 21:17
    79%

    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.

  • Ps 1:4
    79%

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

  • Isa 40:24
    79%

    24Yea, 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.

  • Hos 8:7
    77%

    7For 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.

  • Ps 58:9
    77%

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

  • Jer 13:24
    77%

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

  • Job 27:21
    77%

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

  • Nah 1:10
    77%

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

  • Ps 35:5
    76%

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

  • Job 24:24
    76%

    24They 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.

  • Isa 47:14
    75%

    14Behold, 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.

  • Isa 33:11
    75%

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

  • Job 4:19-20
    2 verses
    75%

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

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

  • Job 4:8-9
    2 verses
    75%

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

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

  • Isa 5:24
    75%

    24Therefore 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.

  • Jer 23:19
    75%

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

  • Ps 37:2
    74%

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

  • Isa 9:18
    74%

    18For 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%

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

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

  • Job 21:30
    74%

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

  • Isa 27:8
    74%

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

  • Isa 17:13
    74%

    13The 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.

  • Job 37:21
    74%

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

  • Job 13:25
    74%

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

  • Jer 30:23
    74%

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

  • Jer 18:17
    74%

    17I 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.

  • Job 22:20
    74%

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

  • Ps 73:19
    74%

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

  • Ps 103:16
    73%

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

  • Isa 37:27
    73%

    27Therefore 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.

  • Ps 129:6
    73%

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

  • Prov 10:25
    73%

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

  • Ps 68:2
    73%

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

  • Job 24:18
    73%

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

  • Ps 18:42
    73%

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

  • 2 Kgs 19:26
    73%

    26Therefore 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.

  • Ps 92:7
    72%

    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:

  • Joel 1:17
    72%

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

  • Prov 1:27
    72%

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

  • Job 18:16
    72%

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

  • Ps 80:16
    72%

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

  • Jer 51:18
    72%

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

  • Isa 29:5
    72%

    5Moreover 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.