When the whirlwind passes by, the wicked is no more, But the righteous has an everlasting foundation.
Parallel translations
- WEB When the whirlwind passes, the wicked is no more; but the righteous stand firm forever.
- KJV As the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no more: but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.
- BSB When the whirlwind passes, the wicked are no more, but the righteous are secure forever.
- NASB When the whirlwind passes, the wicked is no more, But the righteous has an everlasting foundation.
- NLT When the storms of life come, the wicked are whirled away, but the godly have a lasting foundation.
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Quick answer
When the storm passes, the wicked are gone, but the righteous stand firm forever. The wicked are swept away; the righteous have an enduring foundation.
Overview
Using the image of a passing whirlwind, this verse contrasts the swift destruction of the wicked with the lasting stability of the righteous. The righteous are established on a foundation that judgment cannot sweep away. This anticipates Jesus' parable of the house built on the rock, where those who hear and obey his words stand firm through every storm (Matthew 7:24-25).
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- Ps 15:5he who doesn’t lend out his money for usury, nor take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be shaken.
- Ps 58:9Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep away the green and the burning alike.
- Matt 7:24–27“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.
- Prov 12:3A man shall not be established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.
- Matt 16:18I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.
- Isa 40:24They 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.
- Prov 12:7The wicked are overthrown, and are no more, but the house of the righteous shall stand.
- Job 21:18How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?
- 2 Tim 2:19However God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.”
- Eph 2:20being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone;
- 1 Tim 6:19laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold of eternal life.
- Prov 1:27when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when your disaster comes on like a whirlwind; when distress and anguish come on you.
- Job 27:19–21He lies down rich, but he shall not do so again. He opens his eyes, and he is not.
- Ps 37:9–10For evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait for Yahweh shall inherit the land.
- Prov 10:30The righteous will never be removed, but the wicked will not dwell in the land.
- Ps 73:18–20Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.
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