New Revised Standard Version
As smoke is driven away, so drive them away; as wax melts before the fire, let the wicked perish before God.

Contemporary English Version
Scatter them like smoke! When you come near, make them melt like wax in a fire.

New American Bible
As the smoke is dispersed, disperse them; as wax is melted by fire, so may the wicked perish before God.

Douay-Rheims Bible
As smoke vanisheth, so let them vanish away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.

As smoke vanisheth, so let them vanish away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.

As smoke

Psalm 37:20 Because the wicked shall perish. And the enemies of the Lord, presently after they shall be honoured and exalted, shall come to nothing and vanish like smoke.

Isaiah 9:18 For wickedness is kindled as a fire, it shall devour the brier and the thorn: and shall kindle in the thicket of the forest, and it shall be wrapped up in smoke ascending on high.

Hosea 13:3 Therefore they shall be as a morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the dust that is driven with a whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.

as wax

Psalm 97:5 The mountains melted like wax, at the presence of the Lord: at the presence of the Lord of all the earth.

Isaiah 64:2 They would melt as at the burning of fire, the waters would burn with fire, that thy name might be made known to thy enemies: that the nations might tremble at thy presence.

Micah 1:4 For behold the Lord will come forth out of his place: and he will come down, and will tread upon the high places of the earth.

in the presence

Psalm 76:7 Thou art terrible, and who shall resist thee? from that time thy wrath.

Psalm 80:16 Things set on fire and dug down shall perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.

Nahum 1:5,6 The mountains tremble at him, and the hills are made desolate: and the earth hath quaked at his presence, and the world, and all that dwell therein. . . .

2 Thessalonians 1:8,9 In a flame of fire, giving vengeance to them who know not God and who obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. . . .

Revelation 6:16,17 And they say to the mountains and the rocks: Fall upon us and hide us from the face of him that sitteth upon the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb. . . .