18They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.
Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase them.
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 thing before the whirlwind.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-26)Job had largely described the prosperity of wicked people; now, in these verses, I. He opposes this to what his friends had maintained concerning their certain ruin in this life. “Tell me how often do you see the candle of the wicked put out ? Do you not as often see it burnt down to the socket, until it goes out of itself? Job 21:17. How often do you see their destruction come upon them , or God…
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