Psalms 1:4

Not so fare the wicked, not so; like chaff are they, blown by the wind.

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

In Context

3They are like trees planted by runlets of water, yielding fruit in due season, leaves never fading. In all that they do, they prosper.

5So the wicked will not stand firm in the judgment, nor sinners appear, when the righteous are gathered.

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Cross References

Psalms 37:36But the moment I passed, they vanished! I sought for them, but they could not be found.

Hosea 13:3Therefore they will be like the morning mist, like the dew that early disappears, like the chaff which blows away from the threshing floor, like the smoke from 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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