Job 21:18

Old Testament · SCRIPTURE

Job 21:18

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Berean Standard Bible

Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?

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KJV

King James Version

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

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WEB

World English Bible

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

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ASV

American Standard Version

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

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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB

Job 21

¹⁶ Still, their prosperity is not in their own hands, so I stay far from the counsel of the wicked.

¹⁷ How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? Does disaster come upon them? Does God, in His anger, apportion destruction?

¹⁸ Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?

¹⁹ It is said that God lays up one’s punishment for his children. Let God repay the man himself, so he will know it.

²⁰ Let his eyes see his own destruction; let him drink for himself the wrath of the Almighty.

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