Job 21:18 Cross References - CLV

¹⁸ Do they become like crushed straw before the wind, Or like trash that the sweeping whirlwind steals away?

⁷ And by the vastness of Your pomp You were demolishing those rising against You; You were sending forth Your heat; it was devouring them as straw.

²⁵ Would You terrify a leaf being whisked away? And would You pursue dry straw?

⁴ Not so the wicked, But rather they are like the trash that the wind whisks away.

⁵ May they become like trash before the wind, With a messenger of Yahweh expelling them."

¹³ O my Elohim, set them aside like tumbleweed, Like straw before the wind."

²⁴ Wherefore, as a straw is devoured by a tongue of fire, and chaff in a blaze is collapsing, their root as if putrefied is becoming, and their bud as dust is ascending, for they reject the law of Yahweh of hosts, and the saying of the Holy One of Israel they spurn."

¹³ The folkstems shall be tumulted as the tumult of many waters, yet He rebukes them, and they flee far off, and they will be pursued as the trash of the winnowers before the wind, and as a tumbleweed before a sweeping whirlwind."

⁵ And, as thin powder, comes the throng of your foes, and, as passing trash, the throng of the terrifiers. And it comes for an instant,

²⁴ Indeed, they wilt when planted; indeed, they wilt when sown; indeed, a root will wilt in the earth as their set-slip. And, moreover, a breeze blows on them, and they are drying. And a tempest, as straw, is bearing them away."

¹⁵ Behold! I constitute you a new spiked threshing sledge possessing serrated edges. You shall thresh the mountains and pulverize them, and the hills you shall make as trash." ¹⁶ You will winnow them, and the wind will carry them away. And the tempest will scatter them. And you shall exult in Yahweh. And in the Holy One of Israel shall you boast."

²⁴ And I scatter them as stubble, Passing away, by a wind of the wilderness."

³ Wherefore they shall become as a cloud of the morning, and as the early going night mist; as trash which is being tempest-tossed, and as smoke from a crevice."

¹⁰ Though they are still as entangled briars, and as those groggy with their grog, they shall be devoured as straw fully dry."

¹² Whose winnowing shovel is in His hand, and He will be scouring His threshing floor, and will be gathering His grain into His barn, yet the chaff will He be burning up with unextinguished fire."