Job 13:25

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

The wicked are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.

There they were in great fear, where no fear was, for God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you. You have put them to shame, because God has rejected them.

You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”

Among these nations you will find no ease, and there will be no rest for the sole of your foot; but Yahweh will give you there a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and pining of soul.

Now therefore, don’t let my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of Yahweh; for the king of Israel has come out to seek a flea, as when one hunts a partridge in the mountains.”

Is it for your piety that he reproves you, that he enters with you into judgment?

You have rebuked the nations. You have destroyed the wicked. You have blotted out their name forever and ever.

Let them be as chaff before the wind, Yahweh’s angel driving them on.

For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt.

Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.

Yahweh, what is man, that you care for him? Or the son of man, that you think of him?

It shall be, when they ask you, ‘Why do you sigh?’ that you shall say, ‘Because of the news, for it comes! Every heart will melt, all hands will be feeble, every spirit will faint, and all knees will be weak as water. Behold, it comes, and it shall be done, says the Lord Yahweh.’ ”

The men of Ai struck about thirty-six men of them. They chased them from before the gate even to Shebarim, and struck them at the descent. The hearts of the people melted, and became like water.

The Philistine said to David, “Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?” The Philistine cursed David by his gods.

He bowed down, and said, “What is your servant, that you should look at such a dead dog as I am?”

Then Abishai the son of Zeruiah said to the king, “Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Please let me go over and take off his head.”

Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?

A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer will come on him.

If you say, ‘How we will persecute him!’ because the root of the matter is found in me,

The wicked flee when no one pursues; but the righteous are as bold as a lion.

He will surely wind you around and around, and throw you like a ball into a large country. There you will die, and there the chariots of your glory will be, you shame of your lord’s house.

before the appointed time when the day passes as the chaff, before the fierce anger of Yahweh comes on you, before the day of Yahweh’s anger comes on you.

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,

For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.

From now on, when you till the ground, it won’t yield its strength to you. You will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth.”

I will set my face against you, and you will be struck before your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you; and you will flee when no one pursues you.

“ ‘As for those of you who are left, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight; and they shall flee, as one flees from the sword. They will fall when no one pursues.

“My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct, and the grave is ready for me.

Terrors will make him afraid on every side, and will chase him at his heels.

How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?

what is man, that you think of him? What is the son of man, that you care for him?

When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.

Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.”

My God, make them like tumbleweed, like chaff before the wind.

Remember how short my time is, for what vanity you have created all the children of men!

He weakened my strength along the course. He shortened my days.

For the scepter of wickedness won’t remain over the allotment of the righteous; so that the righteous won’t use their hands to do evil.

He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

But the multitude of your foes will be like fine dust, and the multitude of the ruthless ones like chaff that blows away. Yes, it will be in an instant, suddenly.

One thousand will flee at the threat of one. At the threat of five, you will flee until you are left like a beacon on the top of a mountain, and like a banner on a hill.

They are planted scarcely. They are sown scarcely. Their stock has scarcely taken root in the ground. He merely blows on them, and they wither, and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble.

“Therefore I will scatter them, as the stubble that passes away, by the wind of the wilderness.

Therefore they will be like the morning mist, and like the dew that passes away early, like the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing floor, and like the smoke out of the chimney.

See that you don’t despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.

Behold, you have driven me out today from the surface of the ground. I will be hidden from your face, and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth. Whoever finds me will kill me.”

When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will fully pay us back for all the evil which we did to him.”

In the greatness of your excellency, you overthrow those who rise up against you. You send out your wrath. It consumes them as stubble.

All the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were terrified.

Against whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom do you pursue? A dead dog? A flea?

When all the men of Israel who were in the valley saw that they fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned their cities, and fled; and the Philistines came and lived in them.

When you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the mulberry trees, then go out to battle; for God has gone out before you to strike the army of the Philistines.”

What is my strength, that I should wait? What is my end, that I should be patient?

The eye of him who sees me will see me no more. Your eyes will be on me, but I will not be.

What is man, that you should magnify him, that you should set your mind on him,

that you should visit him every morning, and test him every moment?

Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now will I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I will not be.”

Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?

But his flesh on him has pain, and his soul within him mourns.”

Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

You have turned to be cruel to me. With the might of your hand you persecute me.

and said, ‘You may come here, but no further. Your proud waves shall be stopped here?’

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?

You are my King, God. Command victories for Jacob!

For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust.

that I will break the Assyrian in my land, and tread him under foot on my mountains. Then his yoke will leave them, and his burden leave their shoulders.

The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters: but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far off, and will be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.

In that day, Yahweh with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan, the fleeing serpent, and leviathan the twisted serpent; and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea.

You turn things upside down! Should the potter be thought to be like clay; that the thing made should say about him who made it, “He didn’t make me;” or the thing formed say of him who formed it, “He has no understanding?”

I said, “My strength has perished, along with my expectation from Yahweh.”

“Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water with trembling and with fearfulness.

“I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick; but I will destroy the fat and the strong. I will feed them in justice.” ’

Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were broken in pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors. The wind carried them away, so that no place was found for them. The stone that struck the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.

Israel has cast off that which is good. The enemy will pursue him.

His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.”

He won’t break a bruised reed. He won’t quench a smoking flax, until he leads justice to victory.

men fainting for fear, and for expectation of the things which are coming on the world: for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.