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

He does not allow ¹  me to recover ²  my breath, for he fills ³  me with bitterness.

You gave me ¹  life and favor, ²  and your intervention ³  watched over my spirit.

“Does a wise man answer with blustery knowledge, ¹  or fill his belly ²  with the east wind? ³ 

when you turn your rage ¹  against God and allow such words to escape ²  from your mouth?

Will ¹  there be an end to your ²  windy words? ³  Or what provokes ⁴  you that you answer? ⁵ 

Is my ¹  complaint against a man? ²  If so, ³  why should I not be impatient? ⁴ 

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

By his breath ¹  the skies became fair; his hand pierced the fleeing serpent. ² 

for while ¹  my spirit ²  is still in me, and the breath from God is in my nostrils,

But it is a spirit in people, the breath ¹  of the Almighty, that makes them understand.

If God ¹  were to set his heart on it, ²  and gather in his spirit and his breath,

each one is so close to the next ¹  that no air can come between them.

By the Lord’s decree ¹  the heavens were made; by a mere word from his mouth all the stars in the sky were created. ² 

May they be ¹  like wind-driven chaff, as the Lord’s angel ²  attacks them! ³ 

Let me again experience the joy of your deliverance! Sustain me by giving me the desire to obey! ¹ 

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

He humbles princes; ¹  the kings of the earth regard him as awesome. ² 

I said, “I will remember God while I groan; I will think about him while my strength leaves me.” ¹  (Selah)

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