NET Bible
"How often are they like straw before the wind, and like chaff swept away by a whirlwind?"
— Job 21:18, NET Bible
“They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.”
“That they are as stubble before the wind, And as chaff that the storm carrieth away? ”
“How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?”
“They shall be as chaff before the face of the wind, and as ashes which the whirlwind scattereth.”
“How frequently are they as dry stems before the wind, or as grass taken away by the storm-wind?”
“They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.”
Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What would we gain if we were to pray to him?’
But their prosperity is not their own doing. The counsel of the wicked is far from me!
How Often Do the Wicked Suffer?“How often is the lamp of the wicked extinguished? How often does their misfortune come upon them? How often does God apportion pain to them in his anger?
How often are they like straw before the wind, and like chaff swept away by a whirlwind?
You may say,‘God stores up a man’s punishment for his children!’ Instead let him repay the man himself so that he may be humbled!
Let his own eyes see his destruction; let him drink of the anger of the Almighty.
For what is his interest in his home after his death, when the number of his months has been broken off?