Job 21:18
Strong's Lexicon
Are
יִהְי֗וּ (yih·yū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1961: 1) to be, become, come to pass, exist, happen, fall out 1a) (Qal) 1a1) ----- 1a1a) to happen, fall out, occur, take place, come about, come to pass 1a1b) to come about, come to pass 1a2) to come into being, become 1a2a) to arise, appear, come 1a2b) to become 1a2b1) to become 1a2b2) to become like 1a2b3) to be instituted, be established 1a3) to be 1a3a) to exist, be in existence 1a3b) to abide, remain, continue (with word of place or time) 1a3c) to stand, lie, be in, be at, be situated (with word of locality) 1a3d) to accompany, be with 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to occur, come to pass, be done, be brought about 1b2) to be done, be finished, be gone

they like straw
כְּתֶ֥בֶן (kə·ṯe·ḇen)
Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8401: 1) straw, stubble 1a) as building material 1b) as fodder for livestock

before
לִפְנֵי־ (lip̄·nê-)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 6440: 1) face 1a) face, faces 1b) presence, person 1c) face (of seraphim or cherubim) 1d) face (of animals) 1e) face, surface (of ground) 1f) as adv of loc/temp 1f1) before and behind, toward, in front of, forward, formerly, from beforetime, before 1g) with prep 1g1) in front of, before, to the front of, in the presence of, in the face of, at the face or front of, from the presence of, from before, from before the face of

the wind,
ר֑וּחַ (rū·aḥ)
Noun - common singular
Strong's Hebrew 7307: 1) wind, breath, mind, spirit 1a) breath 1b) wind 1b1) of heaven 1b2) quarter (of wind), side 1b3) breath of air 1b4) air, gas 1b5) vain, empty thing 1c) spirit (as that which breathes quickly in animation or agitation) 1c1) spirit, animation, vivacity, vigour 1c2) courage 1c3) temper, anger 1c4) impatience, patience 1c5) spirit, disposition (as troubled, bitter, discontented) 1c6) disposition (of various kinds), unaccountable or uncontrollable impulse 1c7) prophetic spirit 1d) spirit (of the living, breathing being in man and animals) 1d1) as gift, preserved by God, God's spirit, departing at death, disembodied being 1e) spirit (as seat of emotion) 1e1) desire 1e2) sorrow, trouble 1f) spirit 1f1) as seat or organ of mental acts 1f2) rarely of the will 1f3) as seat especially of moral character 1g) Spirit of God, the third person of the triune God, the Holy Spirit, coequal, coeternal with the Father and the Son 1g1) as inspiring ecstatic state of prophecy 1g2) as impelling prophet to utter instruction or warning 1g3) imparting warlike energy and executive and administrative power 1g4) as endowing men with various gifts 1g5) as energy of life 1g6) as manifest in the Shekinah glory 1g7) never referred to as a depersonalised force

like chaff
וּ֝כְמֹ֗ץ (ū·ḵə·mōṣ)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4671: 1) chaff 1a) always as driven by wind

swept away
גְּנָבַ֥תּוּ (gə·nā·ḇat·tū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1589: 1) to steal, steal away, carry away 1a) (Qal) to steal 1b) (Niphal) to be stolen 1c) (Piel) to steal away 1d)(Pual) to be stolen away, be brought by stealth 1e) (Hithpael) to go by stealth, steal away

by a storm ?
סוּפָֽה׃ (sū·p̄āh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5492: n f 1) storm-wind Suphah = 'honeycomb: overflow' n pr loc 2) a place east of the Jordan

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?

Young's Literal Translation
They are as straw before wind, And as chaff a hurricane hath stolen away,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Are they like  straw before  the wind, like chaff a storm sweeps away?

New American Standard Bible
"Are they as straw before the wind, And like chaff which the storm carries away?

King James Bible
They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
Parallel Verses
New International Version
How often are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a gale?

New Living Translation
Are they driven before the wind like straw? Are they carried away by the storm like chaff? Not at all!

English Standard Version
That they are like straw before the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries away?

New American Standard Bible
"Are they as straw before the wind, And like chaff which the storm carries away?

King James Bible
They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff a storm sweeps away?

International Standard Version
May they become like a straw, blown away before the wind; like a chaff that's swept off by a storm.

NET Bible
How often are they like straw before the wind, and like chaff swept away by a whirlwind?

American Standard Version
That they are as stubble before the wind, And as chaff that the storm carrieth away?

English Revised Version
That they are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away?

Young's Literal Translation
They are as straw before wind, And as chaff a hurricane hath stolen away,
















Cross References
1 Corinthians 3:12
Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;

Job 13:25
Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?

Job 22:16
Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:

Job 27:21
The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.

Psalm 1:4
The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.

Psalm 35:5
Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase them.

Psalm 83:13
O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.

Proverbs 10:25
As the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no more: but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.

Isaiah 17:13
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.

Hosea 13:3
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.

Habakkuk 3:6
He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.
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