Psalms 1:4

Not so the impious, not so. For they are like the dust that the wind casts along the face of the earth.

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In The King James Version

The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.

In Context

3And he will be like a tree that has been planted beside running waters, which will provide its fruit in its time, and its leaf will not fall away, and all things whatsoever that he does will prosper.

5Therefore, the impious will not prevail again in judgment, nor sinners in the council of the just.

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Cross References

Job 21:18They will be like chaff before the face of the wind, and like ashes that the whirlwind scatters.

Isaiah 29:5And the multitude of those who fan you will be like fine dust. And the multitude of those who have prevailed against you will be like embers fading away.

Hosea 13:3For this reason, they will be like the morning clouds, and like the morning dew that passes away, just like the dust that is driven by a whirlwind away from the threshing floor, and like the smoke from a chimney.

Matthew Henry on Psalms 1:2-4

Psalms We have now before us one of the choicest and most excellent parts of all the Old Testament; nay, so much is there in it of Christ and his gospel, as well as of God and his law, that it had been called the abstract, or summary, of both Testaments. The History of Israel, which we were long upon, let us to camps and council-boards, and there entertained and instructed us in the knowledge of God. The book of Job brought us into the schools, and treated us with profitable disputations concerning God and his… Read the whole commentary →

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