Job 21:18

Berean Standard Bible (BSB)

Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?

In context

16 Still, their prosperity is not in their own hands, so I stay far from the counsel of the wicked.

17 How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? Does disaster come upon them? Does God, in His anger, apportion destruction?

18 Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?

19 It is said that God lays up one’s punishment for his children. Let God repay the man himself, so he will know it.

20 Let his eyes see his own destruction; let him drink for himself the wrath of the Almighty.

BSB Berean Standard Bible: Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?
KJV King James Version: They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
WEB World English Bible: How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?
ASV American Standard Version: That they are as stubble before the wind, And as chaff that the storm carrieth away?
YLT Young's Literal Translation: They are as straw before wind, And as chaff a hurricane hath stolen away,
DBY Darby Translation: Do they become as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away?
WBS Webster Bible: They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.