Then ¹  seven heads of grain, thin and burned by the east wind, were sprouting up after them.

Then ¹  seven heads of grain, withered and thin and burned with the east wind, were sprouting up after them.

Do you intend to criticize mere words, and treat ¹  the words of a despairing man as wind?

“How long will you speak these things, ¹  seeing ²  that the words of your mouth are like a great ³  wind? ⁴ 

How often ¹  are they like straw before the wind, and like chaff swept away ²  by a whirlwind?

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

You pick me up on the wind and make me ride on it; ¹  you toss me about ²  in the storm. ³ 

I will hurry off to a place that is safe from the strong wind ¹  and the gale.”

Your thunderous voice was heard in the wind; the lightning bolts lit up the world; the earth trembled and shook. ¹ 

He remembered ¹  that they were made of flesh, and were like a wind that blows past and does not return. ² 

Like cloudy skies and wind that produce no rain, ¹  so is the one who boasts ²  of a gift not given. ³ 

Better is one handful with some rest than two hands full of toil ¹  and chasing the wind.

He who watches the wind will not sow, and he who observes the clouds will not reap. ¹ 

The Lord says, “I will cause a destructive wind ¹  to blow against ²  Babylon and the people who inhabit Babylonia. ³ 

Your rowers have brought you into surging waters. The east wind has wrecked you in the heart of the seas.

Even though he flourishes like a reed plant, ¹  a scorching east wind will come, a wind from the Lord rising up from the desert. As a result, his spring will dry up; ²  his well will become dry. That wind ³  will spoil all his delightful foods in the containers in his storehouse.

Be strong and act like men, you Philistines, or else you will wind up serving the Hebrews the way they have served you! Act like men and fight!”

Meanwhile the sky was covered with dark clouds, the wind blew, and there was a heavy rainstorm. Ahab rode toward ¹  Jezreel.

Terrors are turned loose ¹  on me; they drive away ²  my honor like the wind, and like a cloud my deliverance has passed away.

But now, the sun ¹  cannot be looked at ²  – it is bright in the skies – after a wind passed and swept the clouds away. ³