We will swallow them alive like Sheol, those full of vigor like those going down to the Pit.

when what you dread comes like a whirlwind, and disaster strikes you like a devastating storm, when distressing trouble comes on you.

if you seek it like silver, and search for it like hidden treasure,

because he taught them like one who had authority, not like their experts in the law.

It is enough for the disciple to become like his teacher, and the slave like his master. If they have called the head of the house 'Beelzebul,' how much more will they defame the members of his household!

Deliver yourself like a gazelle from a snare, and like a bird from the trap of the fowler.

and your poverty will come like a robber, and your need like an armed man.

Suddenly he went after her like an ox that goes to the slaughter, like a stag prancing into a trapper's snare

Like vinegar to the teeth and like smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to those who send him.

The way of the sluggard is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is like a highway.

Lot looked up and saw the whole region of the Jordan. He noticed that all of it was well-watered (before the Lord obliterated Sodom and Gomorrah) like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, all the way to Zoar.

The people there were amazed by his teaching, because he taught them like one who had authority, not like the experts in the law.

The words of a person's mouth are like deep waters, and the fountain of wisdom is like a flowing brook.

The wealth of a rich person is like a strong city, and it is like a high wall in his imagination.

A king's wrath is like the roar of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.

For we are resident foreigners and nomads in your presence, like all our ancestors; our days are like a shadow on the earth, without security.

It was four fingers thick and its rim was like that of a cup shaped like a lily blossom. It could hold 18,000 gallons.