Job 21:18

Old Testament • 7 words with Strong's data

"They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away."

Word-by-Word Analysis

They are as

קַשׁ

qash

H7179

straw (as dry)

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פָּנִים

pânîym

H6440

the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi...

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the

רוּחַ

rûwach

H7307

wind; by resemblance breath, i.e. a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the ...

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and as

מֹץ

môts

H4671

chaff (as pressed out, i.e. winnowed or (rather) threshed loose)

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that the

סוּפָה

çûwphâh

H5492

a hurricane

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βαστάζω

bastázō

G941

to lift, literally or figuratively (endure, declare, sustain, receive, etc.)

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סוּר

çûwr

H5493

to turn off (literal or figurative)

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Key Terms in This Verse

carrieth G941

βαστάζω bastázō

to lift, literally or figuratively (endure, declare, sustain, receive, etc.)

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chaff H4671

מֹץ môts

chaff (as pressed out, i.e. winnowed or (rather) threshed loose)

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storm H5492

סוּפָה çûwphâh

a hurricane

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stubble H7179

קַשׁ qash

straw (as dry)

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wind H7307

רוּחַ rûwach

wind; by resemblance breath, i.e. a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the sky; by resemblance spirit, but only of a rational...

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away H5493

סוּר çûwr

to turn off (literal or figurative)

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before H6440

פָּנִים pânîym

the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition (before, etc.)

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Cross References

Psalm 1:4 cross-reference

The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.

Psalm 83:13 cross-reference

O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.

Psalm 35:5 cross-reference

Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase them.

Job 13:25 cross-reference

Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?

Isaiah 17:13 cross-reference

The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling th...

Isaiah 29:5 cross-reference

Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.

Jeremiah 13:24 cross-reference

Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness.

Isaiah 40:24 cross-reference

Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take th...

Matthew 3:12 cross-reference

Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.

Hosea 13:3 cross-reference

Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.

Nahum 1:10 cross-reference

For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.

Exodus 15:7 cross-reference

And in the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee: thou sentest forth thy wrath, which consumed them as stubble.

Isaiah 5:24 cross-reference

Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the ...

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