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4The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
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They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
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.
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.
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.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 4-6)Here is, I. The description of the ungodly given, Ps. 1:4. 1. In general, they are the reverse of the righteous, both in character and condition: They are not so . The LXX. emphatically repeats this: Not so the ungodly; they are not so ; they are led by the counsel of the wicked, in the way of sinners, to the seat of the scornful; they have no delight in the law of God, nor ever think of it; they…
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