Job 21:18
Modern Translations
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?

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

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

NASB 1995
"Are they as straw before the wind, And like chaff which the storm carries away?

NASB 1977
“Are they as straw before the wind, And like chaff which the storm carries away?

Amplified Bible
“Are they like straw before the wind, And like chaff that the storm steals and carries away?

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

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

Contemporary English Version
How often does he strike them like a windstorm that scatters straw?

Good News Translation
and blow them away like straw in the wind, or like dust carried away in a storm?

GOD'S WORD® Translation
How often are they like straw in the wind or like husks that the 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?
Classic Translations
King James Bible
They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.

New King James Version
They are like straw before the wind, And like chaff that a storm carries away.

King James 2000 Bible
They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carries away.

New Heart English Bible
How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?

World English Bible
How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?

American King James Version
They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carries away.

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

A Faithful Version
They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff carried away in a windstorm.

Darby Bible Translation
Do they become 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?

Webster's Bible Translation
They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
They shall be as stubble before the winde, and as chaffe that the storme carieth away.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Yea, they shalbe euen as hay before the winde, and as chaffe that the storme carieth away.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Yee they shal be euen as chaffe before the wynde, and as dust that the storme carieth awaye.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
They are as straw before wind, "" And as chaff a windstorm has stolen away,

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

Smith's Literal Translation
They shall be as straw before the wind, and as chaff the storm stole it away.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
They shall be as chaff before the face of the wind, and as ashes which the whirlwind scattereth.

Catholic Public Domain Version
They will be like chaff before the face of the wind, and like ashes that the whirlwind scatters.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And they shall be as straw before the wind and like chaff that a tornado picks up!

Lamsa Bible
They are like straw before the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries away.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
That they are as stubble before the wind, And as chaff that the storm stealeth away?

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And they shall be as chaff before the wind, or as dust which the storm has taken up.
















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