Job 21:18

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How often are they like straw before the wind, and like chaff swept away by a whirlwind?

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 1:4 : 4 Not so with the wicked! Instead they are like wind-driven chaff.
  • Ps 35:5 : 5 May they be like wind-driven chaff, as the LORD’s angel attacks them!
  • Ps 83:13 : 13 O my God, make them like dead thistles, like dead weeds blown away by the wind!
  • Job 13:25 : 25 Do you wish to torment a windblown leaf and chase after dry chaff?
  • Isa 17:13 : 13 Though these people make an uproar as loud as the roaring of powerful waves, when he shouts at them, they will flee to a distant land, driven before the wind like dead weeds on the hills, or like dead thistles before a strong gale.
  • Isa 29:5 : 5 But the horde of invaders will be like fine dust, the horde of tyrants like chaff that is blown away. It will happen suddenly, in a flash.
  • Hos 13:3 : 3 Therefore they will disappear like the morning mist, like early morning dew that evaporates, like chaff that is blown away from a threshing floor, like smoke that disappears through an open window.
  • Nah 1:10 : 10 Surely they will be totally consumed like entangled thorn bushes, like the drink of drunkards, like very dry stubble.
  • Matt 3:12 : 12 His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clean out his threshing floor and will gather his wheat into the storehouse, but the chaff he will burn up with inextinguishable fire!”
  • Exod 15:7 : 7 In the abundance of your majesty you have overthrown those who rise up against you. You sent forth your wrath; it consumed them like stubble.
  • Isa 40:24 : 24 Indeed, they are barely planted; yes, they are barely sown; yes, they barely take root in the earth, and then he blows on them, causing them to dry up, and the wind carries them away like straw.
  • Isa 41:15-16 : 15 “Look, I am making you like a sharp threshing sledge, new and double-edged. You will thresh the mountains and crush them; you will make the hills like straw. 16 You will winnow them and the wind will blow them away; the wind will scatter them. You will rejoice in the LORD; you will boast in the Holy One of Israel.
  • Jer 13:24 : 24 “The LORD says,‘That is why I will scatter your people like chaff that is blown away by a desert wind.
  • Isa 5:24 : 24 Therefore, as flaming fire devours straw, and dry grass disintegrates in the flames, so their root will rot, and their flower will blow away like dust. For they have rejected the law of the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, they have spurned the commands of the Holy One of Israel.

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    3Therefore they will disappear like the morning mist, like early morning dew that evaporates, like chaff that is blown away from a threshing floor, like smoke that disappears through an open window.

  • Ps 83:13-15
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    13O my God, make them like dead thistles, like dead weeds blown away by the wind!

    14Like the fire that burns down the forest, or the flames that consume the mountainsides,

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  • Job 21:17
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    17How Often Do the Wicked Suffer?“How often is the lamp of the wicked extinguished? How often does their misfortune come upon them? How often does God apportion pain to them in his anger?

  • Ps 1:4
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    4Not so with the wicked! Instead they are like wind-driven chaff.

  • Isa 40:24
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    24Indeed, they are barely planted; yes, they are barely sown; yes, they barely take root in the earth, and then he blows on them, causing them to dry up, and the wind carries them away like straw.

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    7The Fertility Cultists Will Become Infertile They sow the wind, and so they will reap the whirlwind! The stalk does not have any standing grain; it will not produce any flour. Even if it were to yield grain, foreigners would swallow it all up.

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    9Before the kindling is even placed under your pots, he will sweep it away along with both the raw and cooked meat.

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    24“The LORD says,‘That is why I will scatter your people like chaff that is blown away by a desert wind.

  • Job 27:21
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    21The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.

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    10Surely they will be totally consumed like entangled thorn bushes, like the drink of drunkards, like very dry stubble.

  • Ps 35:5
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    5May they be like wind-driven chaff, as the LORD’s angel attacks them!

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    24They are exalted for a little while, and then they are gone, they are brought low like all others, and gathered in, and like a head of grain they are cut off.’

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    14Look, they are like straw, which the fire burns up; they cannot rescue themselves from the heat of the flames. There are no coals to warm them, no firelight to enjoy.

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    11You conceive straw, you give birth to chaff; your breath is a fire that destroys you.

  • Job 4:19-20
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    19how much more to those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth?

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

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    24Therefore, as flaming fire devours straw, and dry grass disintegrates in the flames, so their root will rot, and their flower will blow away like dust. For they have rejected the law of the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, they have spurned the commands of the Holy One of Israel.

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    19But just watch! The wrath of the LORD will come like a storm! Like a raging storm it will rage down on the heads of those who are wicked.

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    2For they will quickly dry up like grass, and wither away like plants.

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    17When they are scorched, they dry up, when it is hot, they vanish from their place.

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    8When you summon her for divorce, you prosecute her; he drives her away with his strong wind in the day of the east wind.

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    13Though these people make an uproar as loud as the roaring of powerful waves, when he shouts at them, they will flee to a distant land, driven before the wind like dead weeds on the hills, or like dead thistles before a strong gale.

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    21But now, the sun cannot be looked at– it is bright in the skies– after a wind passed and swept the clouds away.

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    25Do you wish to torment a windblown leaf and chase after dry chaff?

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    23Just watch! The wrath of the LORD will come like a storm. Like a raging storm it will rage down on the heads of those who are wicked.

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    16but when the hot wind blows by, it disappears, and one can no longer even spot the place where it once grew.

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    25When the storm passes through, the wicked are swept away, but the righteous are an everlasting foundation.

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    2As smoke is driven away by the wind, so you drive them away. As wax melts before fire, so the wicked are destroyed before God.

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    26Their residents are powerless, they are terrified and ashamed. They are as short-lived as plants in the field, or green vegetation. They are as short-lived as grass on the rooftops when it is scorched by the east wind.

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    16Below his roots dry up, and his branches wither above.

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    5But the horde of invaders will be like fine dust, the horde of tyrants like chaff that is blown away. It will happen suddenly, in a flash.