Job 21:18
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18 Let them be like straw before the wind,
like chaff the storm carries away!
Psalm 1:4
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II
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- 1:4 The wicked: those who by their actions distance themselves from God’s life-giving presence.
Psalm 37:20
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Kaph
20 The wicked perish,
enemies of the Lord;
They shall be consumed like fattened lambs;
like smoke they disappear.(A)
Isaiah 17:13
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13 [a]But God shall rebuke them,
and they shall flee far away,
Driven like chaff on the mountains before a wind,
like tumbleweed before a storm.(A)
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