Psalms 1:4

Not so the wicked; but they are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

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

In Context

3And he shall be like a tree planted by streams of water, that bringeth forth its fruit in its season, and whose leaf doth not wither; and in whatsoever he doeth he shall prosper.

5Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

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Cross References

Job 21:18That they are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm stealeth away?

Psalms 37:36But one passed by, and, lo, he was not; yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.

Isaiah 29:5But the multitude of thy foes shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones as chaff that passeth away; yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly —

Hosea 13:3Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the dew that early passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the wind out of the threshing-floor, and as the smoke out of the window.

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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