Psalm 1:4
Good News Translation
But evil people are not like this at all; they are like straw that the wind blows away.

New Revised Standard Version
The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away.

Contemporary English Version
That isn't true of those who are evil--they are like straw blown by the wind.

New American Bible
But not so are the wicked, not so! They are like chaff driven by the wind.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Not so the wicked, not so: but like the dust, which the wind driveth from the face of the earth.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Not so the wicked, not so: but like the dust, which the wind driveth from the face of the earth.

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Psalm 35:5 Let them become as dust before the wind: and let the angel of the Lord straiten them.

Job 21:18 They shall be as chaff before the face of the wind, and as ashes which the whirlwind scattereth.

Isaiah 17:13 Nations shall make a noise like the noise of waters overflowing, but he shall rebuke him, and he shall flee far off: and he shall be carried away as the dust of the mountains before the wind, and as a whirlwind before a tempest.

Isaiah 29:5 And the multitude of them that fan thee, shall be like small dust: and as ashes passing away, the multitude of them that have prevailed against thee.

Hosea 13:3 Therefore they shall be as a morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the dust that is driven with a whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.

Matthew 3:12 Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his floor and gather his wheat into the barn; but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.

Context
The LORD Blesses Job
3And he shall be like a tree which is planted near the running waters, which shall bring forth its fruit, in due season. And his leaf shall not fall off: and all whatsoever he shall do shall prosper. 4Not so the wicked, not so: but like the dust, which the wind driveth from the face of the earth.5Therefore the wicked shall not rise again in judgment: nor sinners in the council of the just.…
Cross References
Matthew 3:12
Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his floor and gather his wheat into the barn; but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.

Job 21:18
They shall be as chaff before the face of the wind, and as ashes which the whirlwind scattereth.

Psalm 35:5
Let them become as dust before the wind: and let the angel of the Lord straiten them.

Psalm 37:38
But the unjust shall be destroyed together: the remnants of the wicked shall perish.

Isaiah 17:13
Nations shall make a noise like the noise of waters overflowing, but he shall rebuke him, and he shall flee far off: and he shall be carried away as the dust of the mountains before the wind, and as a whirlwind before a tempest.

Jeremiah 15:7
And I will scatter them with a fan in the gates of the land: I have killed and destroyed my people, and yet they are not returned from their ways.

Daniel 2:35
Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of a summer's threshing floor, and they were carried away by the wind: and there was no place found for them: but the stone that struck the statue became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.

Hosea 13:3
Therefore they shall be as a morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the dust that is driven with a whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.

Psalm 1:3
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