¹⁴ What hope do wicked people have? Only the hope of straw blown about in the wind, the hope of ocean foam^[a] that disappears in the storm, the hope of smoke in the breeze. Their hope lasts no longer than our memory of a guest who stays one day and leaves the next.

²³ Great windstorms will blow them away like straw. Lawlessness will be the ruin of the whole world. Evil actions will cause governments to fall.