It regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood.

Bunch yourselves together like straw, ¹  you undesirable ²  nation,

“You must no longer ¹  give straw to the people for making bricks ²  as before. ³  Let them go ⁴  and collect straw for themselves.

So the people spread out ¹  through all the land of Egypt to collect stubble for straw.

You conceive straw, ¹  you give birth to chaff; your breath is a fire that destroys you. ² 

If anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw, ¹ 

We have plenty of straw and feed,” she added, ¹  “and room for you ²  to spend the night.”

The slave masters were pressuring ¹  them, saying, “Complete ²  your work for each day, just like when there was straw!”

Each one also brought to the assigned location his quota of barley and straw for the various horses. ¹ 

How often ¹  are they like straw before the wind, and like chaff swept away ²  by a whirlwind?

A club is counted ¹  as a piece of straw; it laughs at the rattling of the lance.

So the slave masters of the people and their foremen went to the Israelites and said, ¹  “Thus says Pharaoh: ‘I am not giving ²  you straw.

You ¹  go get straw for yourselves wherever you can ²  find it, because there will be no reduction at all in your workload.’”

No straw is given to your servants, but we are told, ¹  ‘Make bricks!’ Your servants are even ²  being beaten, but the fault ³  is with your people.”

So now, get back to work! ¹  You will not be given straw, but you must still produce ²  your quota ³  of bricks!”

A cow and a bear will graze together, their young will lie down together. ¹  A lion, like an ox, will eat straw.

So Abraham’s servant ¹  went to the house and unloaded ²  the camels. Straw and feed were given ³  to the camels, and water was provided so that he and the men who were with him could wash their feet. ⁴ 

We have enough straw and grain for our donkeys, and there is enough food and wine for me, your female servant, ¹  and the young man who is with your servants. ²  We lack nothing.”

For the Lord’s power will make this mountain secure. ¹  Moab will be trampled down where it stands, ²  as a heap of straw is trampled down in ³  a manure pile.

Indeed, they are barely planted; yes, they are barely sown; yes, they barely take root in the earth, and then he blows on them, causing them to dry up, and the wind carries them away like straw.