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Job 21:18

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

XREF

Ex 15:7; Job 13:25; Ps 1:4; Ps 35:5; Ps 83:13; Isa 5:24; Isa 17:13; Isa 29:5; Isa 40:24; Isa 41:15,16; Jer 13:24; Ho 13:3; Na 1:10; Mt 3:12

NET © Notes

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.

tn The verb used actually means “rob.” It is appropriate to the image of a whirlwind suddenly taking away the wisp of straw.



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