21:18 How often 1 are they like straw before the wind,
and like chaff swept away 2 by a whirlwind?
41:29 A club is counted 3 as a piece of straw;
it laughs at the rattling of the lance.
1 tn To retain the sense that the wicked do not suffer as others, this verse must either be taken as a question or a continuation of the question in v. 17.
2 tn The verb used actually means “rob.” It is appropriate to the image of a whirlwind suddenly taking away the wisp of straw.
3 tn The verb is plural, but since there is no expressed subject it is translated as a passive here.