¹⁹ as water wears away stones
    and torrents^(A) wash away the soil,^(B)
    so you destroy a person’s hope.^(C)

¹⁸ How often are they like straw before the wind,
    like chaff^(A) swept away^(B) by a gale?^(C)

¹¹ why it is so dark^(A) you cannot see,
    and why a flood of water covers you.^(B)

¹⁶ They were carried off before their time,^(A)
    their foundations^(B) washed away by a flood.^(C)