Job 21:18

World English Bible (WEB)

How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?

In context

16 Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

17 “How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out, that their calamity comes on them, that God distributes sorrows in his anger?

18 How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?

19 You say, ‘God lays up his iniquity for his children.’ Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.

20 Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

WEB World English Bible: How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?
KJV King James Version: They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
BSB Berean Standard Bible: Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?
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.