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

⁵ May they be like chaff^(A) before the wind,
    with the angel of the Lord^(B) driving them away;

²⁴ No sooner are they planted,
    no sooner are they sown,
    no sooner do they take root^(A) in the ground,
than he blows^(B) on them and they wither,^(C)
    and a whirlwind sweeps them away like chaff.^(D)

²⁴ “I will scatter you like chaff^(A)
    driven by the desert wind.^(B)