Psalm 1:4 The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind drives away. Natural chaff is light and unprofitable. It is light, containing in it no solid or weighty matter, but a very slight and frothy substance subject to many alterations; even so the wicked are not solid in their purposes and enterprises, and weighty in then carnage and courses, but as chaff, light, easily tossed and blown away. They are light in their words and light in their minds. They are unprofitable ill two ways. In matters temporal, concerning this life, wherein, though they have ability, they want the will to do good with the same. In matters spiritual, wherein, though they have a will, yet they want ability. In that the Spirit of God compares all wicked men to chaff, we learn that the estate and condition of wicked men is exceedingly inconstant, void, uncertain, mutable, and changeable. They have no certain stay, no sure and settled estate in this world. Whether we consider the matters of religion and God's worship, or the things of the world, we shall see them like unto chaff — vain, vile, uncertain, mutable. (Samuel Smith.) Parallel Verses KJV: The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.WEB: The wicked are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away. |
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