Suddenly a powerful wind swept in from the desert and struck the four corners of the house. It collapsed on the young people so that they died, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”

Terrors overtake him like a flood;
a storm wind sweeps him away at night.

Now men cannot even look at the sun
when it is in the skies,
after a wind has swept through and cleared them away.

Are they like straw before the wind,
like chaff a storm sweeps away?

A wind passed by me,
and I shuddered with fear.

Do you think that you can disprove my words
or that a despairing man’s words are mere wind?

How long will you go on saying these things?
Your words are a blast of wind.

Will You frighten a wind-driven leaf?
Will You chase after dry straw?

Does a wise man answer with empty counsel
or fill himself with the hot east wind?

An east wind picks him up, and he is gone;
it carries him away from his place.

When God fixed the weight of the wind
and limited the water by measure,

Terrors are turned loose against me;
they chase my dignity away like the wind,
and my prosperity has passed by like a cloud.

You lift me up on the wind and make me ride it;
You scatter me in the storm.

You whose clothes get hot
when the south wind brings calm to the land,

What road leads to the place where light is dispersed?
Where is the source of the east wind that spreads across the earth?