Psalms 1:4

Not so the wicked: But — as chaff that wind driveth away!

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

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

In Context

3And he hath been as a tree, Planted by rivulets of water, That giveth its fruit in its season, And its leaf doth not wither, And all that he doth he causeth to prosper.

5Therefore the wicked rise not in judgment, Nor sinners in the company of the righteous,

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Cross References

Job 21:18They are as straw before wind, And as chaff a hurricane hath stolen away,

Psalms 37:36And he passeth away, and lo, he is not, And I seek him, and he is not found!

Isaiah 29:5And as small dust hath been The multitude of those scattering thee, And as chaff passing on the multitude of the terrible, And it hath been at an instant — suddenly.

Hosea 13:3Therefore they are as a cloud of the morning, And as dew, rising early, going away, As chaff tossed about out of a floor, And as smoke out of a window.

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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