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

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

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

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me; my spirit drinks their poison; God’s sudden terrors are arrayed against me.

Remember that my life is but a breath, that my eyes will never again see happiness.

“Therefore, I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

in whose hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all the human race.

He will not escape the darkness; a flame will wither his shoots and he will depart by the breath of God’s mouth.

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

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

and suddenly a great wind swept across the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young people, and they died! And I – only I alone – escaped to tell you!”