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

"Look, I cry out, 'Violence!' but I am not answered; I cry out, but there is no justice.

He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.

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 do you persecute me as God does?
Why are you not satisfied with my flesh (anguish)?

I will see Him myself;
my eyes will look at Him, and not as a stranger.
My heart longs within me.

Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?

“He flies away like a dream and cannot be found;
Yes, he is chased away like a vision of the night.

The eye scanned him and shall not add; and his place shall no more look after him.

He shall not look upon the rivers, The flowing streams of honey and butter.

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

There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.

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

There shall no darkness be able to hide him. An unkindled fire shall consume him; and look, what remaineth in his house, it shall be destroyed.

The products of his house will be carried away [like] gushing waters on the day of his wrath.

This is the portion that the wicked shall have of God, and the heritage that he may look for of the LORD."

“Look at me and be astonished and appalled;
And put your hand over your mouth.

They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.

Look, their prosperity [is] not in their hands; the schemes of [the] wicked are repugnant to me.

“Are they like straw before the wind,
And like chaff that the storm steals and carries away?

"Look, I know your thoughts and [the] schemes you devise against me.

Isn’t God as high as the heavens?
And look at the highest stars—how lofty they are!

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.

Then, look what thou takest in hand: he shall make it to prosper with thee, and the light shall shine in thy ways.

"Look! If I go east, he isn't there! If I go to the west, I don't perceive him.

But he knows {the way that I take}; he tests me--I shall come out like gold.

I have not forsaken the commandment of his lips; but look, what he charged me with his mouth, that have I shut up in my heart.

For he will carry out {what he appoints for me}, and many [things] like these [are] with him

Therefore I am troubled at His presence; when I look, I am afraid of Him.

"Look, [like] wild donkeys in the desert they go out to their labor [as] searchers for the prey; [the] wilderness [is] {their} food for the young.

They spend the night naked because they lack clothing; they have no covering against the cold.

They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for lack of a shelter.

“They cause the poor to go about naked without clothing,
And they take away the sheaves [of grain] from the hungry.

{At dusk} the murderer rises; he kills [the] needy and [the] poor, and in the night he is 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.

In the dark they break into houses;
by day they lock themselves in,
never experiencing the light.

For the morning is like darkness to them.
Surely they are familiar 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 on him until he is no longer remembered.
And wickedness will be broken like a tree [which cannot be restored].

And though they might be safe, yet they will not receive it, for their eyes look upon their own ways.

They are exalted for a little, and are no more; they are laid low; like all other are they gathered, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.

Look, even [the] moon {is not bright}, and [the] stars are not pure in his sight.

Look, these [are] the outer fringes of his ways, and {how faint is the word} [that] we hear of him! But who can understand the thunder of his power?"

"Let my enemy be like [the] wicked and my opponent like [the] unrighteous,

Look, you all have seen, and {why in the world} {have you become altogether vain}?

Look, whom he leaveth behind him, they shall die and be buried, and no man shall have pity of his widows.

“Though he heaps up silver like dust
And piles up clothing like clay,

“He builds his house like a spider’s web,
Like a (temporary) hut which a watchman makes.

Terrors overtake him like waters; A tempest stealeth him away in the night.

Then clap men their hands at him, yea and jest of him, when they look upon his place.

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

Rivers flow out of the rocks, and look: what is pleasant, his eye seeth it.

For He to the ends of the earth doth look, Under the whole heavens He doth see,

And to the human beings he said, 'Look, the fear of the Lord [is] wisdom, and to depart from evil [is] understanding.'"

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!

"And I thought, 'I will pass away in my nest, and like the phoenix I shall multiply [my] 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 chose a way for them and sat as chief,
And dwelt as a king among his soldiers,
As one who comforts mourners.

They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.

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

“Among the bushes they cry out [like wild animals];
Beneath the prickly scrub they gather and huddle together.

“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!

Terrors are turned against me; they pursue mine honour as the wind; and my welfare is passed away like a cloud.

“By the great force [of my disease] my garment (skin) is disfigured and blemished;
It binds about me [choking me] like the collar of my coat.

He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.

I cry to you for help, but you do not answer me; I stand, and you [merely] look at me.

I made a covenant with mine eyes; How then should I look upon a virgin?

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

“If I have withheld from the poor what they desired,
Or have caused the eyes of the widow to look in vain [for relief],

(for from my childhood he {grew up with} me like a father, and from my mother's womb I guided her),

if I have seen anyone dying for lack of clothing
or a needy person without a cloak,

if I look at the sun when it shines or the moon as it rises in steady splendor,

If like Adam I have covered my transgressions, By hiding mine iniquity in my bosom,

I would {surely} carry it on my shoulder; I would bind it on me [like] a crown.

I would give him an account of my steps; I would approach him like a noble.

"Look, I waited for your words; I listened for your insight, until you searched out {what to say}.

And I directed my attention to you; and, look, there is no [one] for Job [who] refuted, answering his words among you.

“Now Job has not directed his words against me [therefore I have no reason to be offended],
Nor will I answer him with arguments like yours. [I speak for truth, not for revenge.]

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

Behold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent; it is ready to burst like new bottles.

Please look, I open my mouth; my tongue in my mouth speaks.

Look, before God {I am like you}; I myself was also formed from clay.

Look, dread of me should not terrify you, and my hand will not be heavy upon you.

Look, he finds fault against me; he reckons me as his enemy;

"Look, [in] this you are not right--I will answer you: Indeed, God is greater than a human being.

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

He will look at men and say,
“I have sinned and perverted what was right;
yet I did not get what I deserved.

Redeem my soul from passing into the pit, and my life shall look upon light

Look, God does all these [things] twice, three times with a person

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,

What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?

And why? His eyes look upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings.

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

And he will give quiet, and who shall disturb? and he will hide the face, and who shall look upon him? and against a nation and against man wholly: