Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:

For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.

The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.

Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident to you if I lie.

Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of a hireling?

How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?

Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?

For vain man would be wise, though man is born like a wild ass's colt.

They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.

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

He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.

How much more abominable and filthy is man, who drinketh iniquity like water?

He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Look to the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.

Behold, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him?

Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.

Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou to me.

Hast thou an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with a voice like his?

Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.

He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his male organs are wrapped together.

His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.

His sneezings flash light, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.

He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.

Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear.

Therefore take to you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer for yourselves a burnt-offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.

And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth its fruit in season; its leaf also shall not wither; and whatever he doeth shall prosper.

The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.

Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.

My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer to thee, and will look up.

Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.

Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

He maketh my feet like hinds' feet, and setteth me upon my high places.

I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.

My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

I may number all my bones: they look and stare upon me.

Look upon my affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.

A Psalm of David. To thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou shouldst be silent to me, I should become like them that go down into the pit.

He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.

I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.

The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing.

All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like thee, who deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, even the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?

Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.

Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.

For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.

I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.

When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.

For innumerable evils have encompassed me: my iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of my head: therefore my heart faileth me.

Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for food; and hast scattered us among the heathen.

Nevertheless man being in honor abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish.

Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.

Man that is in honor, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish.

Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.

And I said, O that I had wings like a dove! for then I would fly away, and be at rest.

Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;

As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.

They return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go about the city.

And at evening let them return; and let them make a noise like a dog, and go about the city.

Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:

Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high, who hast done great things: O God, who is like to thee!

He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.

They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust.

There shall be a handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains; the fruit of it shall shake like Lebanon: and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.

They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they afflicted like other men.

Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.

He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:

But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.

And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established for ever.

Their blood have they shed like water around Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.

How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?

To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim Eduth, A Psalm of Asaph. Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubim, shine forth.

The hills were covered with the shade of it, and its boughs were like the goodly cedars.

Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;

But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.

Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yes, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:

O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.

Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thy anointed.

Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven.

Among the gods there is none like thee, O Lord; neither are there any works like thy works.

Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.

They came around me daily like water; they encompassed me together.

O LORD God of hosts, who is a strong LORD like to thee? or to thy faithfulness around thee?

How long, LORD, wilt thou hide thyself? for ever? shall thy wrath burn like fire?

Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep; in the morning they are like grass which groweth.

But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.

The righteous shall flourish like the palm-tree; he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

The hills melted like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.

Whoever privily slandereth his neighbor, him will I cut off: him that hath a high look and a proud heart I will not suffer.

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