Psalms 1:4

Not so the unrighteous; They are like chaff, which the wind driveth away.

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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, That bringeth forth its fruit in its season, Whose leaves also do not wither: All that he doeth shall prosper.

5Therefore the wicked shall not stand in judgment, Nor sinners in the assembly of the just.

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Cross References

Job 21:18How often are they as stubble before the wind, Or as chaff, which the whirlwind carrieth away?

Psalms 37:36But he passed away, and, lo! he was no more; Yea, I sought him, but he was not found.

Isaiah 29:5Yet shall the multitude of thine enemies be like fine dust; The multitude of the terrible like flying chaff; It shall take place suddenly, in a moment.

Hosea 13:3Therefore shall they be as the morning cloud, And as the early dew, which passeth away; As chaff driven with a whirlwind from the thrashing-floor, And as smoke from the chimney.

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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