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


In Context

15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?'

16 Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

17 |How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out, that their calamity comes on them, that God distributes sorrows in his anger?

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

19 You say, 'God lays up his iniquity for his children.' Let him recompense it to himself, that he may 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 New International Version of the Holy Bible

21:18How often are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a gale?

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 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.