Job 21:18 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

How often are they like straw in the wind or like husks that the storm sweeps away?(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

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

ASV:

That they are as stubble before the wind, And as chaff that the storm carrieth away?

BBE:

How frequently are they as dry stems before the wind, or as grass taken away by the storm-wind?

DBY:

Do they become as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away?

ERV:

That they are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away?

JPS:

That they are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm stealeth away?

WBS:

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

WEB:

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

YLT:

They are as straw before wind, And as chaff a hurricane hath stolen away,

Job 21:18 Cross References

XREF:

Job 13:25 "Will You cause a driven leaf to tremble? Or will You pursue the dry chaff?

Psalm 1:4 The wicked are not so, But they are like chaff which the wind drives away.

Psalm 35:5 Let them be like chaff before the wind, With the angel of the LORD driving them on.

Psalm 83:13 O my God, make them like the whirling dust, Like chaff before the wind.

Isaiah 17:13 The nations rumble on like the rumbling of many waters, But He will rebuke them and they will flee far away, And be chased like chaff in the mountains before the wind, Or like whirling dust before a gale.

Hosea 13:3 Therefore they will be like the morning cloud And like dew which soon disappears, Like chaff which is blown away from the threshing floor And like smoke from a chimney. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

MHC:

21:17-26 Job had described the prosperity of wicked people; in these verses he opposes this to what his friends had maintained about their certain ruin in this life. He reconciles this to the holiness and justice of God. Even while they prosper thus, they are light and worthless, of no account with God, or with wise men. In the height of their pomp and power, there is but a step between them and ruin. Job refers the difference Providence makes between one wicked man and another, into the wisdom of God. He is Judge of all the earth, and he will do right. So vast is the disproportion between time and eternity, that if hell be the lot of every sinner at last, it makes little difference if one goes singing thither, and another sighing. If one wicked man die in a palace, and another in a dungeon, the worm that dies not, and the fire that is not quenched, will be the same to them. Thus differences in this world are not worth perplexing ourselves about.

CONC:

Carries Carrieth Chaff Dry Frequently Gale Grass Hurricane Often Stealeth Stems Stolen Storm Storm-wind Straw Stubble Swept Wind

Carries Carrieth Chaff Dry Frequently Gale Grass Hurricane Often Stealeth Stems Stolen Storm Storm-Wind Straw Stubble Swept Wind

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