Job 21:18

Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?

Berean Standard Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

17How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? Does disaster come upon them? Does God, in His anger, apportion destruction?

19It is said that God lays up one’s punishment for his children. Let God repay the man himself, so he will know it.

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Cross References

Exodus 15:7You overthrew Your adversaries by Your great majesty. You unleashed Your burning wrath; it consumed them like stubble.

Job 27:21The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.

Psalms 35:5May they be like chaff in the wind, as the angel of the LORD drives them away.

Psalms 83:14As fire consumes a forest, as a flame sets the mountains ablaze,

Isaiah 17:13The nations rage like the rush of many waters. He rebukes them, and they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills, like tumbleweeds before a gale.

Isaiah 40:24No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner have their stems taken root in the ground, than He blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind sweeps them away like stubble.

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 →

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