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Job 21:18

Context

21:18 How often 1  are they like straw before the wind,

and like chaff swept away 2  by a whirlwind?

Job 41:29

Context

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.



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