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Job 21:18

Job chapter 21 · verse 18 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

That they are as stubble before the wind, And as chaff that the storm carrieth away?

KJV

King James Version · 1611

They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

That they are as stubble before the wind, And as chaff that the storm carrieth away?

Context

v.17How oft is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? That their calamity cometh upon them? ThatGod distributeth sorrows in his anger?

v.18This passage

v.19Ye say, God layeth up his iniquity for his children. Let him recompense it unto himself, that he may know it:

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Psalms 1:4

    The wicked are not so, But are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.

  • Jeremiah 13:24

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

  • Exodus 15:7

    And in the greatness of thine excellency thou overthrowest them that rise up against thee: Thou sendest forth thy wrath, it consumeth them as stubble.

  • Isaiah 41:15

    Behold, I have made thee to be a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth; thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.

  • Isaiah 5:24

    Therefore as the tongue of fire devoureth the stubble, and as the dry grass sinketh 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 Jehovah of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

  • Psalms 35:5

    Let them be as chaff before the wind, And the angel of Jehovah drivingthemon.