Psa 1:4, Hos 13:3 | JFB | e4.org | 4. not so —either as to conduct or happiness. like the chaff —which, by Eastern modes of winnowing against the wind, was utterly blown away.

‏ Psalms 1:4

4. not so—either as to conduct or happiness.

like the chaff—which, by Eastern modes of winnowing against the wind, was utterly blown away.

‏ Hosea 13:3

3. they shall be as the morning cloud . . . dew— (Ho 6:4). As their "goodness" soon vanished like the morning cloud and dew, so they shall perish like them.

the floor—the threshing-floor, generally an open area, on a height, exposed to the winds.

chimney—generally in the East an orifice in the wall, at once admitting the light, and giving egress to the smoke.