Psalms 1:4

The wicked are not so, 1 but are instead like the chaff that the wind drives away. 1

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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 will be like a tree planted by the streams of water 1 that produces its fruit in its season, 1 whose leaves do not wither; 1 whatever he does will prosper. 1

5So the wicked will not stand in the judgment, 1 nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous. 1

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Cross References

Job 21:18How often is it that they become like stubble before the wind 1 or like chaff that the storm carries away? 1

Psalms 37:36But when I passed by again, he was not there. 1 I looked for him, but he could not be found. 1

Isaiah 29:5The great number of your invaders will become like fine dust, and the multitude of the ruthless ones as chaff that passes away. 1 It will happen suddenly, in an instant. 1

Hosea 13:3So they will be like the morning clouds, 1 like the dew that goes away early, 1 like the chaff that is driven by the wind away from a threshing floor, 1 and like smoke out of a chimney. 1

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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