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

[The] womb forgets him. [The] maggot feasts on him [until] he is no longer remembered, and wickedness is broken like a tree.

They are exalted a little while, then {they are gone}. And they are brought low; they are cut off like all [others], and like [the] heads of grain they wither away.

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

If he heaps up silver like the dust and fashions clothing like the clay,

"He builds his house like the moth, and like a booth [that] a watchman has made.

Terrors overtake him like the water; a storm wind carries him off [in the] night.

I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice [was] like a robe and a headband.

"And I thought, 'I will pass away in my nest, and like the phoenix I shall multiply [my] days.

After my word, they did not speak again, and my word dropped down [like dew] upon them.

I chose their way, and I sat [as] head, and I dwelled like a king among the troops, like [one] who comforts mourners.

Terrors are turned upon me; my honor is pursued as [by] the wind, and my hope of deliverance passed by like a cloud.

He has cast me into the dirt, and I have become like dust and ashes.

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

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, my internal organs [are] like unopened wine, like new wineskins it is [ready] to burst open.

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

What man [is] like Job, who drinks scorn like water?

Would that Job were tested up to [the] end because [his] answers [are] like [those from] men of mischief,

Your wickedness [affects] a person like yourself, and your righteousness [affects] humans.

"Look, God is exalted in his power; who [is] a teacher like him?

{Prepare yourself for a difficult task like a man}, and I will question you, and you shall declare to me.

It is changed like clay [under] a seal, and they appear like a garment.

Like stone [the] waters become hard, and [the] faces of the deep freeze.

Do you make it leap like the locust? [The] majesty of its snorting [is] terrifying.

"{Prepare yourself for a difficult task like a man}, and I will question you, and you shall declare to me.

Or do you have an arm like God, and can you thunder with a voice like his?

"Look, Behemoth, which I have made just as [I made] you; it eats grass like the ox.

It keeps its tail straight like a cedar; [the] sinews of its thighs are tightly wound.

Its bones [are] tubes of copper, its limbs like rods of iron.

"Its snorting flashes forth light, and its eyes [are] {red like dawn}.

"Its underparts [are] shards of a potsherd; it moves over mud [like] a threshing sledge.

It makes [the] deep boil like a cooking pot; it makes [the] sea like a pot of ointment.

And beautiful women were not found in all the land like Job's daughters, and their father gave to them an inheritance in the midst of their brothers.

And so, he is like a tree planted by streams of water that gives its fruit in its season; its leaf also does not wither. Therefore all that he does prospers.

Not so the wicked. Instead, [they are] like the chaff that [the] wind scatters.

You will break them with an iron rod. Like a potter's vessel you will shatter them."

For you bless [the] righteous. O Yahweh, like a shield you surround him [with] good favor.

Or else he will tear me apart like a lion, ripping to pieces, with none [to] deliver.

He lies in ambush {secretly,} like a lion in a thicket. He lies in ambush to seize [the] poor; he seizes [the] poor by catching him in his net.

In Yahweh I have taken refuge; how can you say to my soul, "Flee to your mountain [like] a bird"?

The words of Yahweh [are] pure words [like] silver refined in the crucible on the ground, refined seven times.

{He is like} a lion; he longs to tear apart, and like a strong lion crouching in hiding places.

he made my feet like the deer's, and on my high places he makes me stand.

And I ground them like dust {in the wind}, I emptied them out like mud of [the] streets.

and it [is] like a bridegroom who comes out of his bridal chamber. It is glad like a strong man to run [its] course.

You will make them like your fiery furnace at the time of your appearance. Yahweh will swallow them in his wrath and fire will consume them.

They open their mouth against me [like] a lion tearing and roaring.

I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; it is melted {within me}.

My strength is dry like a potsherd, and my tongue is sticking [to] my jaws; and you have placed me in [the] dust of death.

Because dogs have surrounded me; a gang of evildoers has encircled me. Like the lion [they are at] my hands and my feet.

To you, O Yahweh, I call. O my rock, do not be deaf to me. Or else, if you are silent to me, then I will become like those descending to [the] pit.

And he makes them skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young wild ox.

I have become forgotten like [one] dead, out of {mind}. I am like a destroyed vessel.

Do not be like a horse [or] like a mule, without understanding; [that needs] his tackle--bridle and rein--for restraint [or he would not] come near you.

[He] gathered the waters of the sea like a heap. [He] put [the] deeps in storehouses.

Let them be like chaff before [the] wind, with the angel of Yahweh {driving them}.

All of my bones shall say, "O Yahweh, who [is] like you, who delivers [the] poor from [one] stronger than he and [the] poor and needy from [the one who] robs him?"

Your righteousness [is] {like the mighty mountains}, your judgments [like the] great deep. You save man and beast, O Yahweh.

For like the grass they will dry up quickly, and like green vegetation they will wither.

Then he will bring forth your righteousness like the light, and your justice like the noonday.

But [the] wicked will perish, and the enemies of Yahweh [will be] like [the] splendor of [the] pastures. They vanish; in smoke they vanish.

I have seen [the] wicked acting violently and spreading himself out like a luxuriant native tree.

For my iniquities have passed over my head; like a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

But as for me, like [the] deaf I cannot hear, and [I am] like [the] mute [who] cannot open his mouth.

And [so] I am like a man who hears not, and in whose mouth there are no retorts.

[When] with rebukes you chastise a man for sin, you {consume} like a moth his delightful [things]. Surely everyone [is] a [mere] vapor. Selah

Hear my prayer, O Yahweh, and listen [to] my cry for help; do not be deaf to my tears. For I [am] an alien with you, a sojourner like all my ancestors.

But man cannot continue in [his] pomp. He is like the beasts [that] perish.

Like sheep they are destined to Sheol; death will shepherd them. But the upright will rule over them in the morning, and their forms [will be for] Sheol to consume, [far from] his lofty abode.

Humankind in [its] pomp, but does not understand, is like the beasts [that] perish.

These [things] you have done, and I have been silent; You imagined that I was just like you. I will rebuke you and present [an argument] before your eyes.

Your tongue plans destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceit.

But I [am] like an olive tree flourishing in the house of God. I trust the loyal love of God forever and ever.

So I say, "{Oh, that} I had wings like a dove. I would fly away and be at rest.

Their venom [is] like snake venom; [They are] like a deaf viper that closes its ear

Let them run [away] like water [that] runs off. [When] he bends [the bow], let his arrows [be] as though they were cut off.

[Let them be] like a snail [that] melts away [as] it goes; [like the] stillborn of woman [that] do not see [the] sun.

They return at evening; they howl like dogs while they prowl [the] city.

They return at evening; they howl like dogs while they prowl [the] city.

You will add days to the days of the king, his years like [those of] {many generations}.

How long will you attack a man? All of you will be shattered like a leaning wall, a tottering fence.

who sharpen their tongue like a sword. They bend [their bow to shoot] their arrows--bitter words,

Though you [men] lie down between the sheepfolds, [you will be like the] wings of a dove covered in silver and its pinions in yellow gold."

And your righteousness, O God, [is] to [the] height [of heaven]. You who have done great things, O God, who [is] like you?

May he descend like rain on mown grass, like showers watering [the] earth.

May there be an abundance of grain in the land [even] on [the] top of [the] mountains. May his crop sway like the [trees of] Lebanon, and may [those] from [the] city blossom like the grass of the earth.

Like a dream upon awakening, when [you] wake up, O Lord, you will despise their fleeting form.

then I was brutish and ignorant. With you I was [like] the beasts.

They are known [to be] like [those who] {wield} axes in a thicket of trees.

O God, your way [is] distinctive. Who [is] a great god like [our] God?

You led your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

and not be like their ancestors, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation [that] did not make ready its heart, whose spirit was not faithful [to] God.

He split the sea and caused them to go over, and he caused waters to stand like a heap.

And he brought streams out of [the] rock and caused water to flow down like rivers.

Then he rained meat on them like dust, even winged birds like [the] sand of [the] seas.

Then he led out his people like sheep and guided them like a herd in the wilderness.

And they turned and were treacherous like their ancestors. They twisted like a crooked bow.

Then the Lord awoke like [one who had been] asleep, [awoke] like a warrior who had been drunk with wine.