Psalms 1:4
Not so the ungodly—not so: 1 But rather as the chaff which the wind scatters away from the face of the earth. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
In Context
5Therefore the ungodly shall not rise in judgment, 1 Nor sinners in the counsel of the just. 1
Cross References
Job 21:18And they shall be as chaff before the wind, 1 Or as dust which the storm has taken up. 1
Isaiah 29:5But the wealth of the ungodly shall be as dust from a wheel, and the multitude of them that oppress thee as flying chaff, and it shall be suddenly as a moment,
Hosea 13:3Therefore shall they be as a morning cloud, and as the early dew that passes away, as chaff blown away from the threshing floor, and as a vapor from tears.
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 →