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Job 21:18
They become as straw before the wind, and as chaff, which the storm stealeth away.
Job 21:18 · Rotherham Emphasised 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? Or what shall we profit, that we should urge him?
16 Lo! not in their own hand, is their welfare, The counsel of lawless men, is far from me!
17 How oft, the lamp of the lawless, goeth out, and their calamity, cometh upon them, Sorrows, apportioneth he in his anger;
18 They become as straw before the wind, and as chaff, which the storm stealeth away.
19 Shall, GOD, reserve, for his children, his sorrow? Let him recompense him so that he may know it;
20 His own eyes, shall see his misfortune, and, the wrath of the Almighty, shall he drink.
21 For what shall be his pleasure in his house after him, when, the number of his months, is cut in twain?
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