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

The drought as well as the heat carry away the melted snow; ¹  so the grave ²  takes away those who have sinned. ³ 

Arrogant people cannot stand in your presence; ¹  you hate ²  all who behave wickedly. ³ 

His raging anger lashed out against them, ¹  He sent fury, rage, and trouble as messengers who bring disaster. ² 

For my days go up in smoke, ¹  and my bones are charred like a fireplace. ² 

but when the hot wind ¹  blows by, it disappears, and one can no longer even spot the place where it once grew.

Stop trusting in human beings, whose life’s breath is in their nostrils. For why should they be given special consideration?

You conceive straw, ¹  you give birth to chaff; your breath is a fire that destroys you. ² 

Look, all of them are nothing, ¹  their accomplishments are nonexistent; their metal images lack any real substance. ² 

But when the sun came up, they were scorched, and because they did not have sufficient root, they withered.

When the sun came up it was scorched, and because it did not have sufficient root, ¹  it withered.

The Lord was furious with Israel ¹  and handed them over to robbers who plundered them. ²  He turned them over to ³  their enemies who lived around them. They could not withstand their enemies’ attacks. ⁴ 

therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: Surely I have spoken in the fire of my zeal against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, who with great joy and utter contempt have made my land their property and prey, because of its pasture.’

When the sun began to shine, God sent ¹  a hot ²  east wind. So the sun beat down ³  on Jonah’s head, and he grew faint. So he despaired of life, ⁴  and said, “I would rather die than live!” ⁵ 

So he took his relatives ¹  with him and pursued Jacob ²  for seven days. ³  He caught up with ⁴  him in the hill country of Gilead.

In the abundance of your majesty ¹  you have overthrown ²  those who rise up against you. ³  You sent forth ⁴  your wrath; ⁵  it consumed them ⁶  like stubble.

I will walk in hostile rage against you ¹  and I myself will also discipline you seven times on account of your sins.

They surrounded the Benjaminites, chased them from Nohah, ¹  and annihilated ²  them all the way to a spot east of Geba. ³ 

David was afraid of the Lord that day and said, “How will the ark of the Lord ever come to me?”

So they hanged Haman on the very gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. The king’s rage then abated.