Psalms 1:4

Not so, the lawless,—but as chaff which is driven about by the wind:

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

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

In Context

3So doth he become like a tree planted by streams of waters,—that yieldeth, its fruit, in its season, whose leaf, also doth not wither, and, whatsoever he doeth, prospereth.

5For this cause, shall the lawless not stand in the judgment,—nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.

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Cross References

Job 21:18They become as straw before the wind, and as chaff, which the storm stealeth away.

Psalms 37:36Then I passed by, and lo! he had vanished! Yea I sought him, but he could not be found.

Isaiah 29:5Then shall be as fine dust the multitude of thy foreigners,—And as chaff that passeth away, the multitude of tyrants; And it shall come to pass, in a twinkling, Suddenly,

Hosea 13:3Therefore, shall they become like the morning cloud, and like the dew early departing,—like chaff storm-driven out of the threshing-floor, and like smoke out of a 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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