Job 21:18

World English Bible (2000)

How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 1:4 : 4 The wicked 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, Yahweh's angel driving them on.
  • Ps 83:13 : 13 My God, make them like tumbleweed; like chaff before the wind.
  • Job 13:25 : 25 Will you harass a driven leaf? Will you pursue the dry stubble?
  • Isa 17:13 : 13 The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters: but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far off, and will be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.
  • Isa 29:5 : 5 But the multitude of your foes will be like fine dust, and the multitude of the ruthless ones like chaff that blows away. Yes, it will be in an instant, suddenly.
  • Hos 13:3 : 3 Therefore they will be like the morning mist, and like the dew that passes away early, like the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing floor, and like the smoke out of the chimney.
  • Nah 1:10 : 10 For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.
  • Matt 3:12 : 12 His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire."
  • Exod 15:7 : 7 In the greatness of your excellency, you overthrow those who rise up against you. You send forth your wrath. It consumes them as stubble.
  • Isa 40:24 : 24 They are planted scarcely. They are sown scarcely. Their stock has scarcely taken root in the ground. He merely blows on them, and they wither, and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble.
  • Isa 41:15-16 : 15 Behold, I have made you into a new sharp threshing instrument with teeth. You will thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and will make the hills like chaff. 16 You will winnow them, and the wind will carry them away, and the whirlwind will scatter them. You will rejoice in Yahweh. You will glory in the Holy One of Israel.
  • Jer 13:24 : 24 Therefore will I scatter them, as the stubble that passes away, by the wind of the wilderness.
  • Isa 5:24 : 24 Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust; because they have rejected the law of Yahweh of Armies, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Hos 13:3
    81%

    3Therefore they will be like the morning mist, and like the dew that passes away early, like the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing floor, and like the smoke out of the chimney.

  • Ps 83:13-15
    3 verses
    80%

    13My God, make them like tumbleweed; like chaff before the wind.

    14As the fire that burns the forest, as the flame that sets the mountains on fire,

    15so pursue them with your tempest, and terrify them with your storm.

  • Job 21:17
    79%

    17"How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out, that their calamity comes on them, that God distributes sorrows in his anger?

  • Ps 1:4
    79%

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

  • Isa 40:24
    79%

    24They are planted scarcely. They are sown scarcely. Their stock has scarcely taken root in the ground. He merely blows on them, and they wither, and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble.

  • Hos 8:7
    77%

    7For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.

  • Ps 58:9
    77%

    9Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep away the green and the burning alike.

  • Jer 13:24
    77%

    24Therefore will I 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. It sweeps him out of his place.

  • Nah 1:10
    77%

    10For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.

  • Ps 35:5
    76%

    5Let them be as chaff before the wind, Yahweh's angel driving them on.

  • Job 24:24
    76%

    24They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone. Yes, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others, and are cut off as 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: it shall not be a coal to warm at, nor a fire to sit before.

  • Isa 33:11
    75%

    11You will conceive chaff. You will bring forth stubble. Your breath is a fire that will devour you.

  • Job 4:19-20
    2 verses
    75%

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

    20Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.

  • Job 4:8-9
    2 verses
    75%

    8According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same.

    9By the breath of God they perish. By the blast of his anger are they consumed.

  • Isa 5:24
    75%

    24Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust; because they have rejected the law of Yahweh of Armies, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

  • Jer 23:19
    75%

    19Behold, the storm of Yahweh, [even his] wrath, is gone forth, yes, a whirling storm: it shall burst on 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 a fire. It devours the briers and thorns; yes, it kindles in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.

  • Job 6:17-18
    2 verses
    74%

    17In the dry season, they vanish. When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

    18The caravans that travel beside them turn aside. They go up into the waste, and perish.

  • Job 21:30
    74%

    30that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, That they are led forth to the day of wrath?

  • Isa 27:8
    74%

    8In measure, when you send them away, you contend with them. He has removed them with his rough blast in the day of the east wind.

  • Isa 17:13
    74%

    13The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters: but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far off, and will be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.

  • Job 37:21
    74%

    21Now men don't see the light which is bright in the skies, but the wind passes, and clears them.

  • Job 13:25
    74%

    25Will you harass a driven leaf? Will you pursue the dry stubble?

  • Jer 30:23
    74%

    23Behold, the storm of Yahweh, [even his] wrath, is gone forth, a sweeping storm: it shall burst on 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%

    20saying, 'Surely those who rose up against us are cut off. The fire has consumed the remnant of them.'

  • Ps 73:19
    74%

    19How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.

  • Ps 103:16
    73%

    16For the wind passes over it, and it is gone. Its place remembers it no more.

  • Isa 37:27
    73%

    27Therefore their inhabitants had 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 a field before its crop has grown.

  • Ps 129:6
    73%

    6Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up;

  • Prov 10:25
    73%

    25When the whirlwind passes, the wicked is no more; but the righteous stand firm forever.

  • 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%

    18"They are foam on the surface of the waters. Their portion is cursed in the earth. They don't turn into the way of the vineyards.

  • Ps 18:42
    73%

    42Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind. I cast them out as the mire of the streets.

  • 2 Kgs 19:26
    73%

    26Therefore their inhabitants were of small 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 blasted before it has grown up.

  • Ps 92:7
    72%

    7though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.

  • Joel 1:17
    72%

    17The seeds rot under their clods. The granaries are laid desolate. The barns are broken down, for the grain has withered.

  • Prov 1:27
    72%

    27when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when your disaster comes on like a whirlwind; when distress and anguish come on you.

  • Job 18:16
    72%

    16His roots shall be dried up beneath. Above shall his branch be cut off.

  • Ps 80:16
    72%

    16It's burned with fire. It's cut down. They perish at your rebuke.

  • Jer 51:18
    72%

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

  • Isa 29:5
    72%

    5But the multitude of your foes will be like fine dust, and the multitude of the ruthless ones like chaff that blows away. Yes, it will be in an instant, suddenly.