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

Though he may get silver together like dust, and make ready great stores of clothing;

Fears overtake him like rushing waters; in the night the storm-wind takes him away.

They make noises like asses among the brushwood; they get together under the thorns.

Fears have come on me; my hope is gone like the wind, and my well-being like a cloud.

Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust.

I would make clear the number of my steps, I would put it before him like a prince! The words of Job are ended.

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

My stomach is like wine which is unable to get out; like skins full of new wine, it is almost burst.

What man is like Job, a man who freely makes sport of God,

May Job be tested to the end, because his answers have been like those of evil men.

Your evil-doing may have an effect on a man like yourself, or your righteousness on a son of man.

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.

Truly God is lifted up in strength; who is a ruler like him?

Get your strength together like a man of war; I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers.

It is changed like wet earth under a stamp, and is coloured like a robe;

Is it through you that he is shaking like a locust, in the pride of his loud-sounding breath?

Get your strength together like a man of war: I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers.

Have you an arm like God? have you a voice of thunder like his?

See now the Great Beast, whom I made, even as I made you; he takes grass for food, like the ox.

His tail is curving like a cedar; the muscles of his legs are joined together.

His bones are pipes of brass, his legs are like rods of iron.

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

His sneezings give out flames, and his eyes are like the eyes of the dawn.

Smoke comes out of his nose, like a pot boiling on the fire.

The deep is boiling like a pot of spices, and the sea like a perfume-vessel.

On earth there is not another like him, who is made without fear.

He will be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, which gives its fruit at the right time, whose leaves will ever be green; and he will do well in all his undertakings.

The evil-doers are not so; but are like the dust from the grain, which the wind takes away.

They will be ruled by you with a rod of iron; they will be broken like a potter's vessel.

For no faith may be put in their words; their inner part is nothing but evil; their throat is like an open place for the dead; smooth are the words of their tongues.

So that he may not come rushing on my soul like a lion, wounding it, while there is no one to be my saviour.

He keeps himself in a secret place like a lion in his hole, waiting to put his hands on the poor man, and pulling him into his net.

In the Lord put I my faith; how will you say to my soul, Go in flight like a bird to the mountain?

The words of the Lord are true words: like silver tested by fire and burned clean seven times.

He makes my feet like roes' feet, and puts me on high places.

Then they were crushed as small as dust before the wind; they were drained out like the waste of the streets.

Who is like a newly married man coming from his bride-tent, and is glad like a strong runner starting on his way.

You will make them like a flaming oven before you; the Lord in his wrath will put an end to them, and they will be burned up in the fire.

I saw their mouths wide open, like lions crying after food.

I am flowing away like water, and all my bones are out of place: my heart is like wax, it has become soft in my body.

My throat is dry like a broken vessel; my tongue is fixed to the roof of my mouth, and the dust of death is on my lips.

My cry goes up to you, O Lord, my Rock; do not keep back your answer from me, so that I may not become like those who go down into the underworld.

I have gone from men's minds and memory like a dead man; I am like a broken vessel.

For the weight of your hand was on me day and night; my body became dry like the earth in summer. (Selah.)

Do not be like the horse or the ass, without sense; ...

Let them be like dust from the grain before the wind; let the angel of the Lord send them in flight.

All my bones will say, Lord, who is like you? The saviour of the poor man from the hands of the strong, of him who is poor and in need from him who takes his goods.

My behaviour was as if it had been my friend or my brother: I was bent low in grief like one whose mother is dead.

Like men of deceit they put me to shame; the voice of their wrath was loud against me.

Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; your judging is like the great deep; O Lord, you give life to man and beast.

For they will quickly be cut down like grass, and become dry like the green plants.

And he will make your righteousness be seen like the light, and your cause like the shining of the sun.

But the wrongdoers will come to destruction, and the haters of the Lord will be like the fat of lambs, they will be burned up; they will go up in smoke, and never again be seen.

I have seen the evil-doer in great power, covering the earth like a great tree.

Truly, every man goes on his way like an image; he is troubled for no purpose: he makes a great store of wealth, and has no knowledge of who will get it.

Let my prayer come to your ears, O Lord, and give attention to my cry, make an answer to my weeping: for my time here is short before you, and in a little time I will be gone, like all my fathers.

Like the desire of the roe for the water-streams, so is my soul's desire for you, O God.

The cruel words of my haters are like a crushing of my bones; when they say to me every day, Where is your God?

You have made us like sheep which are taken for meat; we are put to flight among the nations.

Truly, because of you we are put to death every day; we are numbered like sheep for destruction.

The nations were angry, the kingdoms were moved; at the sound of his voice the earth became like wax.

But man, like the animals, does not go on for ever; he comes to an end like the beasts.

Death will give them their food like sheep; the underworld is their fate and they will go down into it; their flesh is food for worms; their form is wasted away; the underworld is their resting-place for ever.

Man, like the animals, does not go on for ever; he comes to an end like the beasts.

Purposing destruction, using deceit; your tongue is like a sharp blade.

But I am like a branching olive-tree in the house of God; I have put my faith in his mercy for ever and ever.

And I said, If only I had wings like a dove! for then I would go in flight from here and be at rest.

Their poison is like the poison of a snake; they are like the adder, whose ears are shut;

Let them be turned to liquid like the ever-flowing waters; let them be cut off like the grass by the way.

Let them be like an after-birth which is turned to water and comes to an end; like the fruit of a woman who gives birth before her time, let them not see the sun.

Before they are conscious of it, let them be cut down like thorns; let a strong wind take them away like waste growth.

They come back in the evening; they make a noise like a dog, and go round the town.

And in the evening let them come back, and make a noise like a dog, and go round the town.

Who make their tongues sharp like a sword, and whose arrows are pointed, even bitter words;

For you, O God, have put us to the test: testing us by fire like silver.

Let them be like smoke before the driving wind; as wax turning soft before the fire, so let them come to an end before the power of God.

Will you take your rest among the flocks? like the wings of a dove covered with silver, and its feathers with yellow gold.

I have become strange to my brothers, and like a man from a far country to my mother's children.

Your righteousness, O God, is very high; you have done great things; O God, who is like you?

May he come down like rain on the cut grass; like showers watering the earth.

May there be wide-stretching fields of grain in the land, shaking on the top of the mountains, full of fruit like Lebanon: may its stems be unnumbered like the grass of the earth.

For this reason pride is round them like a chain; they are clothed with violent behaviour as with a robe.

If I would make clear what it is like, I would say, You are false to the generation of your children.

As a dream when one is awake, they are ended; they are like an image gone out of mind when sleep is over.

As for me, I was foolish, and without knowledge; I was like a beast before you.

Sending out their voices like lions among your worshippers; they have put up their signs to be seen.

They are cutting down, like a man whose blade is lifted up against the thick trees.

You were guiding your people like a flock, by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

And not be like their fathers, a stiff-necked and uncontrolled generation; a generation whose heart was hard, whose spirit was not true to God.

He made streams come out of the rock; and waters came flowing down like rivers.

And he sent down manna like rain for their food, and gave them the grain of heaven.

He sent down meat on them like dust, and feathered birds like the sand of the sea,

So their days were wasted like a breath, and their years in trouble.

But he took his people out like sheep, guiding them in the waste land like a flock.

Their hearts were turned back and untrue like their fathers; they were turned to one side like a twisted bow.

Then was the Lord like one awaking from sleep, and like a strong man crying out because of wine.

And he made his holy place like the high heaven, like the earth which is fixed by him for ever.

Give ear, O Keeper of Israel, guiding Joseph like a flock; you who have your seat on the winged ones, let your glory be seen.

Faith comes up from the earth like a plant; righteousness is looking down from heaven.