Job 21:18

How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?

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In The King James Version

They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.

In Context

17“How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out, that their calamity comes on them, that God distributes sorrows in his anger?

19You say, ‘God lays up his iniquity for his children.’ Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.

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Cross References

Exodus 15:7In the greatness of your excellency, you overthrow those who rise up against you. You send out your wrath. It consumes them as stubble.

Job 27:21The east wind carries him away, and he departs. It sweeps him out of his place.

Psalms 35:5Let them be as chaff before the wind, the LORD’s angel driving them on.

Psalms 83:14As the fire that burns the forest, as the flame that sets the mountains on fire,

Isaiah 17:13The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters, but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far off, and will be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.

Isaiah 40:24They are planted scarcely. They are sown scarcely. Their stock has scarcely taken root in the ground. He merely blows on them, and they wither, and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble.

Matthew Henry on Job 21:18-27

Certain Punishments of the Wicked; Divine Sovereignty. ( b. c. 1520.) 17 How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger. 18 They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away. 19 God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it. 20 His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty. 21 For what pleasure hath he in his house after him,… Read the whole commentary →

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