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Job 21:18

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

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Job 21:18 in other translations

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

Job 21:18 · American Standard Version

Job 21:18 in context

  1. 16Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand.
    The counsel of the wicked is far from me.
  2. 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?
  3. 18How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind,
    as chaff that the storm carries away?
  4. 19You say, ‘God lays up his iniquity for his children.’
    Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.
  5. 20Let his own eyes see his destruction.
    Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.