Job 21:18

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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 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{H8798)} 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.

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