Job 21:18
How frequently are they as dry stems before the wind, or as grass taken away by the storm-wind?
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 15:7When you are lifted up in power, all those who come against you are crushed: when you send out your wrath, they are burned up like dry grass.
Job 27:21The east wind takes him up and he is gone; he is forced violently out of his place.
Psalms 35:5Let them be like dust from the grain before the wind; let the angel of the Lord send them in flight.
Psalms 83:14\83:13\O my God, make them like the rolling dust; like dry stems before the wind.
Isaiah 17:13But he will put a stop to them, and make them go in flight far away, driving them like the waste of the grain on the tops of the mountains before the wind, and like the circling dust before the storm.
Isaiah 40:24They have only now been planted, and their seed put into the earth, and they have only now taken root, when he sends out his breath over them and they become dry, and the storm-wind takes them away like dry grass.
Matthew Henry on Job 21:18-27
Certain Punishments of the Wicked; Divine Sovereignty. ( b. c. 1520.) 17 How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger. 18 They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away. 19 God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it. 20 His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty. 21 For what pleasure hath he in his house after him,… Read the whole commentary →