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Psalms 1:4

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

Updated King James Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

3And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he does shall prosper.

5Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

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Cross References

Job 21:18They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carries away.

Psalms 37:36Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.

Isaiah 29:5Moreover the multitude of your strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passes away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.

Hosea 13:3Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud and as the early dew that passes away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke 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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

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