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

² “Would a wise person answer with empty notions
    or fill their belly with the hot east wind?^(A)

⁹ Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns^(A)—
    whether they be green or dry—the wicked will be swept away.^[a](B)