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The Two Paths

Psalms 1:4

In 11 translations

BSB
Not so the wicked! For they are like chaff driven off by the wind.
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.
ASV
The wicked are not so, But are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
LSV
Not so the wicked: But [they are] as chaff that wind drives away!
YLT
Not so the wicked: But — as chaff that wind driveth away!
DBY
The wicked are not so; but are as the chaff which the wind driveth away.
DRC
Not so the wicked, not so: but like the dust, which the wind driveth from the face of the earth.
GNV
The wicked are not so, but as the chaffe, which the winde driueth away.
JPS
Not so the wicked; but they are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
LXXE
Not so the ungodly;—not so: but rather as the chaff which the wind scatters away from the face of the earth.Or, dust or down.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
לֹא־כֵ֥ן הָרְשָׁעִ֑ים כִּ֥י אִם־כַּ֝מֹּ֗ץ אֲֽשֶׁר־תִּדְּפֶ֥נּוּ רֽוּחַ׃
LXX-Br
Οὐχ οὕτως οἱ ἀσεβεῖς, οὐχ οὕτως, ἀλλʼ ἢ ὡς ὁ χνοῦς ὃν ἐκρίπτει ὁ ἄνεμος ἀπὸ προσώπου τῆς γῆς.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Job 21:18Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?
  • Matthew 3:12His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
  • Psalms 35:5May they be like chaff in the wind, as the angel of the LORD drives them away.
  • Isaiah 17:13The nations rage like the rush of many waters. He rebukes them, and they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills, like tumbleweeds before a gale.
  • Hosea 13:3Therefore they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes, like chaff blown from a threshing floor, like smoke through an open window.
  • Isaiah 29:5But your many foes will be like fine dust, the multitude of the ruthless like blowing chaff. Then suddenly, in an instant,

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