Job 21:18
They will be like chaff before the face of the wind, and like ashes that the whirlwind scatters.
Catholic Public Domain Version
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 15:7And in the multitude of your glory you have put down your adversaries. You sent out your wrath, which devoured them like stubble.
Job 27:21A burning wind will pick him up and carry him away, and, like a whirlwind, it will rush him from his place.
Psalms 35:5He has been considering iniquity on his bed. He has set himself on every way that is not good; moreover, he has not hated evil.
Isaiah 17:13The peoples will make a noise, like the noise of waters overflowing, but he will rebuke him, and so he will flee far away. And he will be quickly taken away, like the dust of the mountains before the face of the wind, and like a whirlwind before a tempest.
Isaiah 40:24And certainly, their stalk was neither planted, nor sown, nor rooted in the ground. He has suddenly blown across them, and they have withered, and a whirlwind will carry them away like chaff.
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 →