Psalms 1:4
The wicked are not so, but as the chaffe, which the winde driueth away.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
In Context
Cross References
Job 21:18They shall be as stubble before the winde, and as chaffe that the storme carieth away.
Psalms 37:36Yet he passed away, and loe, he was gone, and I sought him, but he could not be founde.
Isaiah 29:5Moreouer, the multitude of thy strangers shalbe like small dust, and the multitude of strong men shalbe as chaffe that passeth away, and it shall be in a moment, euen suddenly.
Hosea 13:3Therefore they shall bee as the morning cloude, and as the morning dewe that passeth away, as the chaffe that is driuen with a whirlewind out of the floore, and as the smoke that goeth out of 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 →