Psalms 1:4

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

Leeser Tanakh

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 rivulets of water, that yieldeth its fruit in its season, and the leaf of which doth not wither; and all that he may do shall prosper.

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

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Cross References

Job 21:18Are they as straw before the wind, and as chaff which the stealeth away?

Psalms 37:36Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was no more: and I sought him, but he could not be found.

Isaiah 29:5And like the small dust shall be the multitude of thy barbarian enemies, and like the passing chaff the multitude of tyrants; and [this] shall be at unawares, suddenly.

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