and behold, a great wind came from across the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young people and they died, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”

The paths of their course wind along, They go up into wasteland and perish.

Do you intend to rebuke my words, When the words of one in despair belong to the wind?

“How long will you say these things, And the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?

“Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, And fill himself with the east wind?

Is there no end to windy words? Or what provokes you that you answer?

Are they as straw before the wind, And like chaff which the storm carries away?

The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; For it sweeps him away from his place.

When He imparted weight to the wind, And assessed the waters by measure,

Sudden terrors are turned upon me; They chase away my dignity like the wind, And my prosperity has passed away like a cloud.

You lift me up to the wind and make me ride it; And You dissolve me in a storm.

From the south comes the storm, And from the north wind the cold.

You whose garments are hot When the land is still because of the south wind?

“Now people do not see the light which is bright in the skies; But the wind has passed and cleared them.

Where is the way that the light is divided, And the east wind scattered on the earth?