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Job 21:18
They shall be as chaff before the face of the wind, and as ashes which the whirlwind scattereth.
Job 21:18 · Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner)
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 Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what doth it profit us if we pray to him?
16 Yet because their good things are not in their hand, may the counsel of the wicked be far from me.
17 How often shall the lamp of the wicked be put out, and a deluge come upon them, and he shall distribute the sorrows of his wrath?
18 They shall be as chaff before the face of the wind, and as ashes which the whirlwind scattereth.
19 God shall lay up the sorrow of the father for his children: and when he shall repay, then shall he know.
20 His eyes shall see his own destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
21 For what is it to him what befalleth his house after him: and if the number of his months be diminished by one half?
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