18How often are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a gale?


In Context

15 Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What would we gain by praying to him?'

16 But their prosperity is not in their own hands, so I stand aloof from the counsel of the wicked.

17 "Yet how often is the lamp of the wicked snuffed out? How often does calamity come upon them, the fate God allots in his anger?

18 How often are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a gale?

19 It is said, 'God stores up a man's punishment for his sons.' Let him repay the man himself, so that he will know it!

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

Job 21:18 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

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

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

21:18They shall be as chaff before the face of the wind, and as ashes which the whirlwind scattereth.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

21:18That they are as stubble before the wind, And as chaff that the storm carrieth away?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:18Do they become as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

21:18That they are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

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

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:18How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

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

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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