My clothes are disheveled by his forceful treatment of me; he restricts my movement like the collar of my cloak.

Casting me into mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.

Let my wife grind [meal, like a bond slave] for another [man],
And let others kneel down over her.

but from my youth I raised the orphan like a father, and from my mother's womb I guided the widow!

"Have I covered my transgression like other people, to conceal iniquity within myself?

Surely I would carry it on my shoulder,
I would bind it to myself like a crown.

I'll give an account for every step I've taken; I'll approach him confidently like a Commander-in-Chief."

I will not put forward words like these, or make use of your sayings in answer to him.

"But insomuch as ye will not speak, standing still like dumb men, and making no answer:

Lo, my breast is as wine not opened, Like new bottles it is broken up.

Look! As far as God is concerned, I'm just like you are I, too, have been pinched off from a piece of clay.

then his flesh is restored like a youth's; he returns to the days of his youthful vigor.

"He'll sing to mankind with these words: "I've sinned. I have twisted what is right. Yet he has not repaid me like I deserve.

But if you have something to say, answer me;
speak, for I would like to justify you.

Since the ear tests words like a palate tastes food,

Who is a man like Job? He drinketh scoffing like water,

“He strikes them like the wicked
In a public place,

‘Job ought to be tried to the limit,
Because he answers like wicked men.

For a man like thyself is thy wickedness, And for a son of man thy righteousness.

He withdraws not His eyes from the righteous, but they are like kings on the throne; yes, He causes them to sit forever, and they are very high.

They come to their end while they are still young, their life is short like that of those who are used for sex purposes in the worship of their gods.

Lo, God doth sit on high by His power, Who is like Him -- a teacher?

"Now I'll conclude with this: my heart is trembling violently; it feels like it's about to leap from my body!

Can you spread out the skies like he does; can you cast them as one might a mirror?

Stand up like a man! I'll ask you some questions, and you give me some answers!"

Or [who] shut up the sea with doors when it broke forth, [like] it had issued out of the womb,

Like clay is molded by a signet ring, the earth's hills and valleys then stand out like the colors of a garment.

when water solidifies like stone and the surface of the deepest sea freezes?

when the dust hardens like cast metal
and the clods of dirt stick together?

"The wings of the ostrich flap joyously, but aren't its pinions and feathers like the stork?

Can you make him leap like the locust, and make the splendor of his snorting terrifying?

"Stand up like a man! I'll ask you some questions, and you give me some answers!

And an arm like God hast thou? And with a voice like Him dost thou thunder?

"Please observe Behemoth, which I made along with you. He eats grass like an ox.

His tail protrudes stiffly, like cedar; the sinews of his thigh interlink for strength.

His bones are conduits of bronze; his strong bones are like bars of iron.

"Will you play with him like a pet bird? Will you put a leash on him for your little girls?

His back is made of lines of plates, joined tight together, one against the other, like a stamp.

"His snorting releases flashes of light; his eyes are like the rays of the dawn.

Smoke billows from his nostrils; like a boiling pot or burning reeds.

His heart, is hardened like a stone, yea hardened, like the nether millstone;

He regards iron like straw, and hardened bronze like a dead tree.

Arrows do not make it flee; slingstones become like chaff to it.

Clubs are like twigs; he laughs at the whoosh of the javelin.

"Beneath him he is armored as with sharp potsherds; he tears through muddy ground like a threshing sledge through grain.

He causes the deep to boil like water in a pot, and churns the sea like one stirs ointment.

The sea is luminescent behind him; his wake turns the sea white, like those with gray hair.

There is not on the earth his like, That is made without terror.

And it cometh to pass after Jehovah's speaking these words unto Job, that Jehovah saith unto Eliphaz the Temanite, 'Burned hath Mine anger against thee, and against thy two friends, because ye have not spoken concerning Me rightly, like My servant Job.

And now, take to you seven bullocks and seven rams, and go ye unto My servant Job, and ye have caused a burnt-offering to ascend for you; and Job My servant doth pray for you, for surely his face I accept, so as not to do with you folly, because ye have not spoken concerning Me rightly, like My servant Job.

And beautiful women were not found in all the land like Job's daughters, and their father gave to them an inheritance in the midst of their brothers.