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Job 21:18
Do they become as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away?
Job 21:18 · Darby Bible
Job 21:18 in other translations
They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?
How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?
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In context
15 What is the Almighty that we should serve him? and what are we profited if we pray unto him?
16 Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked be far from me!
17 How often is the lamp of the wicked put out, and cometh their calamity upon them? Doth he distribute sorrows [to them] in his anger?
18 Do they become as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away?
19 God layeth up [the punishment of] his iniquity for his children; he rewardeth him, and he shall know [it]:
20 His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the fury of the Almighty.
21 For what pleasure should he have in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off?
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