Psalms 1:4

Not so the wicked! For they are like chaff driven off by the wind.

Majority Standard Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

3He is like a tree planted by streams of water, yielding its fruit in season, whose leaf does not wither, and who prospers in all he does.

5Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.

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Cross References

Job 21:18Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?

Psalms 37:36yet he passed away and was no more; though I searched, he could not be found.

Isaiah 29:5But your many foes will be like fine dust, the multitude of the ruthless like blowing chaff. Then suddenly, in an instant,

Hosea 13:3Therefore they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes, like chaff blown from a threshing floor, like smoke through an open 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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