For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.

My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.

I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.

I watch, and am become like a sparrow That is alone upon the house-top.

For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,

My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.

They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed:

Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's.

Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him.

As for man, his days [are] like the grass. As the flower of the field, so he blossoms.

Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:

You covered the primeval ocean like a garment; the water stood above the mountains.

like wine that makes the heart of people happy, oil that makes the face glow, and food that sustains people.

like the covenant he made with Abraham, and his promise to Isaac.

He gave them hail for rain,
With flaming fire in their land.

He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out; they ran in the dry places like a river.

We are sinners like our fathers, we have done wrong, our acts are evil.

Therefore, they became unclean because of what they did; they have acted like whores by their evil deeds.

They acted like fools in their rebellious ways, and suffered because of their sins.

They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end.

Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him families like a flock.

As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.

May it be for him like a garment [in which] he wraps, and a belt {he continually wears}.

I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

My accusers will be clothed with disgrace;
they will wear their shame like a cloak.

The Lord has sworn an oath and will not take it back:
“Forever, You are a priest
like Melchizedek.”

Who is like unto the LORD our God, who dwelleth on high,

The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.

Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and ye little hills, like lambs?

They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.

They compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.

In the way of thy testimonies, have I rejoiced, Like as over all riches.

I am like a foreigner in this land. Do not hide your commands from me!

Their heart [is] insensitive like fat; As for me, I take delight in your law.

For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.

Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth like dross: therefore I love thy testimonies.

I [am] rejoicing over your word, like one who finds great spoil.

I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.

Like a sharp arrow from a warrior, along with fiery coals from juniper trees!

Jerusalem is built like a city that is all joined together as one;

Like a servant’s eyes on his master’s hand,
like a servant girl’s eyes on her mistress’s hand,
so our eyes are on the Lord our God
until He shows us favor.

We have escaped like a bird from the snare of the fowlers;
The trap is broken and we have escaped.

Those who trust in and rely on the Lord [with confident expectation]
Are like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved but remains forever.

{A Song of degrees.} When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream.

Restore, O Yahweh, our fortunes like the streams in the Negeb.

Like arrows in [the] hand of a warrior, so [are] the children of [one's] youth.

Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.

Let them be like grass on [the] housetops, that withers before it grows up,

Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul; Like a weaned child with his mother, Like a weaned child is my soul within me.

It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments;

Like the dew of Hermon, That cometh down upon the mountains of Zion: For there Jehovah commanded the blessing, Even life for evermore.

They that make them are like unto them: so is every one that trusteth in them.

Knowledge like this is too amazing for me. It is beyond my reach, and I cannot fathom it.

even the darkness is not dark to You.
The night shines like the day;
darkness and light are alike to You.

They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.

Let my prayer be set before you like incense; the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.

Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don't let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.

Our bones lie scattered before the pit, like as when one graveth and diggeth up the ground.

For [the] enemy has pursued my soul; he has crushed my life to the ground. He has made me dwell in dark places like [those] long dead.

I reach out my hands to You;
My throat thirsts for You, as a parched land [thirsts for water]. Selah.

Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.

Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.

Let our sons in their youth be like plants full grown,
And our daughters like corner pillars fashioned for a palace;

They will overflow [like a fountain] when they speak of Your great and abundant goodness
And will sing joyfully of Your righteousness.

He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes.

He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold?

He has not dealt with any other nation like this; they never knew his decrees. Hallelujah!

For they will be like an elegant garland on your head, and like pendants around your neck.

Like Sheol, we will swallow them alive and whole, {like those who descend to the pit}.

When your panic comes like a storm, and your calamity arrives like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you,

if you seek her like silver and search her out {like treasure},

He stores up effective counsel for the upright, and is like a shield for those who live with integrity,

She is like a tree of life to those who obtain her, and everyone who grasps hold of her will be blessed.

But the path of the just (righteous) is like the light of dawn,
That shines brighter and brighter until [it reaches its full strength and glory in] the perfect day.

The way of the wicked is like [deep] darkness;
They do not know over what they stumble.

Like a loving deer, a beautiful doe, let her breasts satisfy you all the time. Be constantly intoxicated by her love.

Save yourself like a gazelle from a hand, or like a bird from the hand of a fowler.

So your poverty will come like an approaching prowler who walks [slowly, but surely]
And your need [will come] like an armed man [making you helpless].

For [like] a lamp [is] a commandment, and instruction [is] light, and the way of life [is the] reproof of discipline,

Keep my commands and live, and my teaching like [the] {apple of your eye}.

A woman came to meet him
dressed like a prostitute,
having a hidden agenda.

Suddenly he went after her, as an ox goes to the slaughter [not knowing the outcome],
Or as one in stocks going to the correction [to be given] to a fool,

Until an arrow pierced his liver [with a mortal wound];
Like a bird fluttering straight into the net,
He did not know that it would cost him his life.

Then I was by him, like a master workman: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;

The memory of righteousness [is] like a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.

The wealth of a rich person is like a fortified city, but the poor are brought to ruin by their poverty.

The tongue of the righteous is like choice silver. The heart of the wicked is of little worth.

[It is] like a sport for a fool to do wrong, wisdom for a person of understanding.

Like the passing away of a tempest, so the lawless one is not, but, the righteous, hath an age-abiding foundation.

Like vinegar to the tooth and like smoke to the eyes, thus [is] the lazy to one who employs him.

The way of the Lord is like a stronghold for the upright, but it is destruction to evildoers.

The mouth of the righteous flows with [skillful and godly] wisdom,
But the perverted tongue will be cut out.

Like as righteousness bringeth life; even so to cleave unto evil, bringeth death.

A beautiful woman who rejects good sense
is like a gold ring in a pig’s snout.

He who leans on and trusts in and is confident in his riches will fall,
But the righteous [who trust in God’s provision] will flourish like a green leaf.

The fruit of the righteous is like a tree producing life, and the one who wins souls is wise.

Whoever loves instruction and discipline loves knowledge,
But he who hates reproof and correction is stupid.

A woman of strength [is] the crown of her master, but like rot in his bones is she who brings shame.

There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is like a tree of life.