Job 21:18

KJV1611 – Modern English

They are like straw before the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries away.

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  • Ps 1:4 : 4 The ungodly are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives 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 Will you break a leaf driven to and fro, and will you pursue 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 away, 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 your strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passes away; yes, 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 passes 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 while they are entangled like thorns and while they are drunken like drunkards, they shall be devoured as fully dry stubble.
  • Matt 3:12 : 12 His winnowing fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the barn; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
  • Exod 15:7 : 7 And in the greatness of your excellence you have overthrown those who rose against you: you sent forth your wrath, which consumed them like stubble.
  • Isa 40:24 : 24 Indeed, they shall not be planted; indeed, they shall not be sown; indeed, 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 you a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: you shall thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shall make the hills as chaff. 16 You shall fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and you shall rejoice in the LORD, and shall glory in the Holy One of Israel.
  • Jer 13:24 : 24 Therefore I will scatter them as the stubble that passes away by the wind of the wilderness.
  • Isa 5:24 : 24 Therefore as the fire devours the stubble, and the flame consumes 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 passes away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing 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 burns a forest, and as the flame sets the mountains on fire;

    15So pursue them with your tempest, and make them afraid with your storm.

  • Job 21:17
    79%

    17How often is the lamp of the wicked put out! And how often does their destruction come upon them! God distributes sorrows in His anger.

  • Ps 1:4
    79%

    4The ungodly are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.

  • Isa 40:24
    79%

    24Indeed, they shall not be planted; indeed, they shall not be sown; indeed, 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 has no stalk; the bud shall yield no meal. If it does yield, 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 I will scatter them as the stubble that passes away by the wind of the wilderness.

  • Job 27:21
    77%

    21The east wind carries him away, and he departs; and as a storm hurls him out of his place.

  • Nah 1:10
    77%

    10For while they are entangled like thorns and while they are drunken like drunkards, they shall be devoured as fully dry stubble.

  • 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 removed out of the way like all others, and cut off like the tops of the ears of grain.

  • 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 by, nor a fire to sit before.

  • Isa 33:11
    75%

    11You conceive chaff, you bring forth stubble; your breath, as fire, will devour you.

  • Job 4:19-20
    2 verses
    75%

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

    20They are destroyed from morning to evening; they perish forever without anyone regarding it.

  • Job 4:8-9
    2 verses
    75%

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

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

  • Isa 5:24
    75%

    24Therefore as the fire devours the stubble, and the flame consumes 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 has gone forth in fury, 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 like the green herb.

  • Isa 9:18
    74%

    18For wickedness burns like the fire; it will devour the briers and thorns and will kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they will mount up like the lifting up of smoke.

  • Job 6:17-18
    2 verses
    74%

    17At the time when they grow warm, they vanish; when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

    18The paths of their way turn aside; they go to nothing and perish.

  • Job 21:30
    74%

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

  • Isa 27:8
    74%

    8In measure, when it shoots forth, You will debate with it: He restrains 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 away, 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%

    21And now men do not see the bright light which is in the clouds, but the wind passes and clears them.

  • Job 13:25
    74%

    25Will you break a leaf driven to and fro, and will you pursue dry stubble?

  • Jer 30:23
    74%

    23Behold, the whirlwind of the LORD goes 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 show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.

  • Job 22:20
    74%

    20Our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumes.

  • Ps 73:19
    74%

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

  • Ps 103:16
    73%

    16For the wind passes over it, and it is gone; and its place remembers 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 grain blighted before it is grown up.

  • Ps 129:6
    73%

    6Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withers before it grows up:

  • Prov 10:25
    73%

    25As the whirlwind passes, 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 melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.

  • Job 24:18
    73%

    18He is as swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth; he does not behold the way of the vineyards.

  • Ps 18:42
    73%

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

  • 2 Kgs 19:26
    73%

    26Therefore their inhabitants were of little power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like grain blighted before it is grown up.

  • Ps 92:7
    72%

    7When the wicked spring up like the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity flourish, it is so they may be destroyed forever.

  • Joel 1:17
    72%

    17The seed shrivels under their clods, the storehouses are desolate, the barns are broken down; for the grain is withered.

  • Prov 1:27
    72%

    27When your fear comes like desolation, and your destruction comes like a whirlwind; when distress and anguish come upon you.

  • Job 18:16
    72%

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

  • Ps 80:16
    72%

    16It is burned with fire, it is cut down; they perish at the rebuke of your 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 your strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passes away; yes, it shall be at an instant, suddenly.