Psalm 1:4 Parallel Translations
NASB: The wicked are not so, But they are like chaff which the wind drives away. (NASB ©1995)
GWT: Wicked people are not like that. Instead, they are like husks that the wind blows away.(GOD'S WORD®)
KJV: The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
ASV: The wicked are not so, But are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
BBE: The evil-doers are not so; but are like the dust from the grain, which the wind takes away.
DBY: The wicked are not so; but are as the chaff which the wind driveth away.
ERV: The wicked are not so; but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
JPS: Not so the wicked; but they are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
WBS: The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
WEB: The wicked are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.
YLT: Not so the wicked: But -- as chaff that wind driveth away!
Psalm 1:4 Cross References
XREF:Job 21:18 "Are they as straw before the wind, And like chaff which the storm carries away?

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

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. (NASB ©1995)
Commentaries and Concordances
GSB: 1:4 {d} The ungodly [are] not so: but [are] like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
(d) Though the wicked seem to prosper in this world, yet the Lord drives them down that they shall not rise nor stand in the company of the righteous.
WES: 1:4 Ungodly - Their condition is far different. Chaff - They are restless and unquiet: their seeming felicity, hath no firm foundation, but quickly vanishes and flees away as chaff before the wind.
MHC: 1:4-6 The ungodly are the reverse of the righteous, both in character and condition. The ungodly are not so, ver. 4; they are led by the counsel of the wicked, in the way of sinners, to the seat of the scornful; they have no delight in the law of God; they bring forth no fruit but what is evil. The righteous are like useful, fruitful trees: the ungodly are like the chaff which the wind drives away: the dust which the owner of the floor desires to have driven away, as not being of any use. They are of no worth in God's account, how highly soever they may value themselves. They are easily driven to and fro by every wind of temptation. The chaff may be, for a while, among the wheat, but He is coming, whose fan is in his hand, and who will thoroughly purge his floor. Those that, by their own sin and folly, make themselves as chaff, will be found so before the whirlwind and fire of Divine wrath. The doom of the ungodly is fixed, but whenever the sinner becomes sensible of this guilt and misery, he may be admitted into the company of the righteous by Christ the living way, and become in Christ a new creature. He has new desires, new pleasures, hopes, fears, sorrows, companions, and employments. His thoughts, words, and actions are changed. He enters on a new state, and bears a new character. Behold, all things are become new by Divine grace, which changes his soul into the image of the Redeemer. How different the character and end of the ungodly!
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