The Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, fearing God and turning away from evil.”

The Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man fearing God and turning away from evil. And he still holds fast his integrity, although you incited Me against him to ruin him without cause.”

And he said to her, You are talking like one of the foolish women. If we take the good God sends us, are we not to take the evil when it comes? In all this Job kept his lips from sin.

like as the kings and lords of the earth, which build themselves special places:

“Or like a miscarriage which is discarded, I would not be,
As infants that never saw light.

“For my groaning comes at the sight of my food,
And my cries pour out like water.

"Will you get offended if somebody tries to talk to you? Who can keep from speaking at a time like this?

how much more to those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth?

But a human being is born to trouble, and {they soar aloft} [like] {sparks}.

Insomuch that they run into darkness by fair day, and grope about them at the noonday, like as in the night.

And thou shalt know, that numerous is thy seed, and, thine offspring, like the young shoots of the field.

“You will come to the grave in full vigor,
Like the stacking of grain in its season.

“My soul refuses to touch them;
They are like loathsome food to me.

Is my strength like that of stones? or is my flesh made of bronze?

like as if one withdrew a good deed from his friend, and forsook the fear of the Almighty God?

“My brothers have acted deceitfully like a wadi,
Like the torrents of wadis which vanish,

For now you have become like these streams that are no help; you see a terror, and are afraid.

“Is not man forced to labor on earth,
And are not his days like the days of a hired man?

Like a servant longing for the evening shadow, and like a hired man looking for his wages,

For if thou fasten thine eyes upon me, I come to naught like as a cloud is consumed and vanisheth away. Even so, he that goeth down to hell, cometh no more up,

Am I like the sea, or a whale, that You set a watch over me?

How long will you say these things, and how long will the words of your mouth be like a strong wind?

(For we are but of yesterday, and have no knowledge, because our days on earth are gone like a shade:)

and it taketh many roots: insomuch that it is like a house of stone.

“If he is snatched from his place [in the garden],
Then his place will forget him, saying, ‘I have never seen you.’

“They slip by like reed boats,
Like an eagle that swoops on its prey.

For he is not a man like myself, whom I might answer, nor could we come together into judgment:

“Then I would speak and not fear Him;
But I am not like that in myself.

Are your days as the days of man, or your years like his,

Please remember that You formed me like clay.
Will You now return me to dust?

‘Did You not pour me out like milk
And curdle me like cheese;

‘Should my head be lifted up, You would hunt me like a lion;
And again You would show Your power against me.

A land of obscurity, like thick darkness, of death-shade and disorder, and which shineth like thick darkness.

Yet a senseless man will make bold, though man be born like the foal of a wild ass.

For, now, shalt thou forget, sorrow, Like waters passed away, shalt thou remember it.

“Your life would be brighter than noonday;
Darkness would be like the morning.

But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall have no escape, and their hope shall be like the giving up of the spirit.

I also have a heart like you, I am not fallen more than you, And with whom is there not like these?

I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.

He that is ready to slip with his feet is like a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.

“They grope in darkness with no light,
And He makes them stagger like a drunken man.

Will it be good for you to be searched out by him, or have you the thought that he may be guided into error like a man?

Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.

While I am decaying like a rotten thing,
Like a garment that is moth-eaten.

“Like a flower he comes forth and withers.
He also flees like a shadow and does not remain.

Do You really take notice of one like this?
Will You bring me into judgment against You?

“Turn Your gaze from him that he may rest,
Until he fulfills his day like a hired man.

At the scent of water it will flourish
And put forth sprigs like a plant.

Water wears away stones; floods wash away topsoil from the land but you destroy the hope of human beings just like that!

that you turn your anger against God and speak words like this?

How much less one who is detestable and corrupt,
Man, who drinks iniquity like water!

“Distress and anguish terrify him,
They overpower him like a king ready for the attack,

Running against him like a man of war, covered by his thick breastplate; even like a king ready for the fight,

“He will drop off his unripe grape like the vine,
And will cast off his flower like the olive tree.

"I have heard many things like these before. What miserable comforters are you all!

May words which are like the wind be stopped? or what is troubling you to make answer to them?

I also, like you, might speak, If your soul were in my soul's stead. I might join against you with words, And nod at you with my head.

“He breaks through me with breach after breach;
He runs at me like a warrior.

Therefore hath mine eye become dim from vexation, and, my members, are like a shadow, all of them.

Wherefore are we accounted like beasts? or appear stupid, in thine eyes?

Indeed, the residences of the wicked are like this; and so are the homes of those who don't know God."

He breaketh me down round about, and I go, And removeth like a tree my hope.

Yea he hath kindled against me his anger, and accounted me towards him like unto his adversaries;

Those who live in my house and my maidservants, too! treat me like a stranger; they think I'm a foreigner.

Why are you cruel to me, like God, for ever saying evil against me?

He perishes forever like his refuse;
Those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’

“He flies away like a dream, and they cannot find him;
Even like a vision of the night he is chased away.

In vain, he toiled, he shall not swallow, like wealth to be restored, in which he cannot exult!

God gives him his desire, and sends the heat of his wrath on him, making it come down on him like rain.

The produce of his house is taken away into another country, like things given into the hands of others in the day of wrath.

“They send forth their little ones like the flock,
And their children skip about.

“Are they as straw before the wind,
And like chaff which the storm carries away?

Men who were snatched away before their time,
Whose foundations were poured out like a river?

He shall give thee a harvest, which in plenty and abundance shall exceed the dust of the earth, and the gold of Ophir like river stones.

For he has knowledge of the way I take; after I have been tested I will come out like gold.

He will certainly accomplish what He has decreed for me,
and He has many more things like these in mind.

Like asses in the waste land they go out to their work, looking for food with care; from the waste land they get bread for their children.

With the light, riseth the murderer, He slayeth the poor and needy, And, in the night, he becometh like a thief.

The eye of the ungodly is like the adulterer, that waiteth for the darkness, and sayeth thus in himself, 'Tush, there shall no man see me,' and so he disguiseth his face.

For all of them, the morning is to them like deep darkness; they are friends with the terrors of darkness.

Drought and heat snatch away [the] snow waters, [like] Sheol [snatches away] those [who have] sinned.

“A mother will forget him;
The worm feeds sweetly till he is no longer remembered.
And wickedness will be broken like a tree.

“They are exalted a little while, then they are gone;
Moreover, they are brought low and like everything gathered up;
Even like the heads of grain they are cut off.

Let my hater be like the evil man, and let him who comes against me be as the sinner.

“Though he piles up silver like dust
And prepares garments as plentiful as the clay,

“He has built his house like the spider’s web,
Or as a hut which the watchman has made.

“Terrors overtake him like a flood;
A tempest steals him away in the night.

The earth! from it cometh forth bread, And its under-part is turned like fire.

like when I was in my prime and God trusted me with his secrets!

“I put on righteousness, and it clothed me;
My justice was like a robe and a turban.

Then said I, Like a stem, shall I grow old, yea, as the sand, shall I multiply days:

“After I spoke, they did not speak again,
And my speech dropped upon them [like a refreshing shower].

And they waited for me like the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.

I set an example of the way to live, as a leader would; I lived like a king among his army; like one who comforts mourners."

For very misery and hunger, they went about in the wilderness like wretches and beggars,

They were banished from the community -- people shouted at them like they would shout at thieves --

They bray like donkeys among the bushes and huddle together under the desert weeds.

“On my right the [rabble] brood rises;
They push my feet away, and they build up their ways of destruction against me [like an advancing army].

They come like those who breach through a wall; as everything crashes around me they'll roll on and on!

My greatest fears have overcome me; my honor is assaulted as though by a wind storm; my prosperity evaporates like a morning cloud."