He who trusts in his riches shall fall; but the righteous shall blossom like a branch.

Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge; but he who hates correction is like a brute animal.

A woman of virtue is a crown to her husband, but she who causes shame is like rottenness in his bones.

There are those who speak like the thrusts of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

The way of the lazy one is like a hedge of thorns, but the way of the righteous is made plain.

In the light of the king's face is life, and his favor is like a cloud of the latter rain.

Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

An ungodly man plots evil, and his lips are like a burning fire.

A bribe is like a precious stone in the eyes of him who has it; wherever he turns, he is prudent.

The beginning of strife is like letting out water; therefore leave off fighting, before it breaks out.

A merry heart does good like a medicine, but a broken spirit dries the bones.

The words of a man's mouth are like deep waters; the fountain of wisdom is like a flowing stream.

A brother offended is like a strong city; and their disagreements are like the bars of a fortress.

The king's wrath is like the roaring of a lion; but his favor is like dew on the grass.

Wisdom in the heart of man is like deep water, but a man of understanding will draw it out.

Will your eyes fly on it? And it is gone! For surely it makes wings for itself; it flies into the heavens like an eagle.

At the last it bites like an asp and stings like an adder.

then your poverty comes stalking, and your want like a man armed with a shield.

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.

Like cold snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger to his senders; for he makes return to his master's soul.

A man boasting himself in a false gift is like clouds and wind, but no rain.

Trust in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.

Like cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.

A righteous man falling down before the wicked is like a troubled fountain and a rotten spring.

He who has no rule over his own spirit is like a broken down city without a wall.

Do not answer a fool according to his foolishness, lest you also be like him.

Great is the Former of all, but he who hires a fool is like one who hires one passing by.

He who passes by enraging himself over strife not his own is like one who takes a dog by the ears,

or like a madman who throws firebrands, arrows, and death.

Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a broken piece of pottery with silver waste.

A poor man who crushes the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaves no food.

Like a roaring lion and a ranging bear, so is a wicked ruler over the helpless people.

Surely I am more like an animal than any man, and do not have the understanding of a man.

There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, and their jaw teeth like knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.

She is like the merchants' ships; she brings her food from afar.

and I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands like bands. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her, but the sinner shall be taken by her.

But it shall not be well with the wicked, nor shall he make his days longer like a shadow; because he does not fear before God.

There is an evil I have seen under the sun, like a sin which comes from a ruler's presence;

The words of the wise are like goads; yes, their collected words are like nails driven home; they are given from one Shepherd.

I am black, but comely, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.

My Beloved is to me like a cluster of henna in the vineyards of Engedi.

My Beloved is like a roe or a young hart. Behold, He stands behind our wall, He looks forth at the windows, peering from the lattice.

Until when does the day blow, and the shadows flee away? Turn, my Beloved, and be like a gazelle, or a young deer, the stag, on the mountains of Bether.

Who is this coming up out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, from all the merchant's powders?

Behold, you are beautiful, My love. Behold, you are beautiful; your eyes are like doves' from behind your veil; your hair is like a flock of goats that appear from Mount Gilead.

Your teeth are like a flock of shorn sheep, which came up from the washing; they all are bearing twins and not one is barren among them.

Your lips are like a cord of scarlet, and your speech is becoming; your temples are like a piece of pomegranate behind your veil.

Your neck is like the tower of David built for an armory, on which there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men.

Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle, feeding among the lilies.

Your lips, My spouse, drop like the honeycomb; honey and milk are under your tongue; and the smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon.

His head is like refined gold; His locks are bushy, black as a raven.

His cheeks are like a bed of spices, a raised bed of aromatic herbs. His lips are as lilies dropping flowing myrrh.

His hands are like rings of gold filled with jewels; His body an ivory plate overlaid with sapphires.

His legs are like pillars of marble set on sockets of fine gold; His face is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.

Turn away your eyes from Me, for they have overcome Me; your hair is like a flock of goats that appears from Gilead.

Your teeth are like a flock of ewes which go up from the washing; they all are bearing twins, and a barren one is not among them.

Your temples behind your veil are like a piece of pomegranate.

Who is she who looks forth like the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, awesome as armies with banners?

How beautiful are your feet in sandals, O prince's daughter! The curves of your thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a skillful workman.

Your navel is like a round goblet, which never lacks mixed wine; your belly is like a heap of wheat set about with lilies.

Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.

Your neck is like a tower of ivory; your eyes like the fish-pools in Heshbon, by the gate of Beth-rabbim; your nose is like the tower of Lebanon which looks toward Damascus.

Your head on you is like Carmel, and the hair of your head like purple cloth; the King is held captive in its tresses.

Your stature is like a palm tree, and your breasts are like clusters of grapes.

I said, I will go up in the palm tree, I will take hold of its stalk. And please let your breasts be like clusters of the vine, and the smell of your nose like apples;

and the roof of your mouth like the best wine for my Beloved, that goes down smoothly for my Beloved, flowing softly over the lips of sleeping ones.

I was a wall, and my breasts like towers; then I was in His eyes as one finding peace.

Hurry, my Beloved, and be like a gazelle, or a young deer, the stag, on the mountains of spices.

And the daughter of Zion is left a booth in a vineyard, like a hut in a garden of cucumbers, like a besieged city.

Except Jehovah of Hosts had left us a very small remnant, we would be as Sodom; we would be like Gomorrah.

Come now, and let us reason together, says Jehovah; though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be like wool.

For you shall be like an oak whose leaf fades, and like a garden that has no water.

And the strong shall be like tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall put them out.

For You have forsaken Your people the house of Jacob, because they have become full from the east, and are fortune-tellers like the Philistines. And they clap their hands with the children of strangers.

The look of their faces witnesses against them; and they declare their sin like Sodom. They do not hide it! Woe to their soul! For they have rewarded evil to themselves.

So, as the fire devours the stubble, and the flame burns up the chaff; their root shall be like rottenness, and their blossoms shall go up like dust, because they have cast away the Law of Jehovah of Hosts, and despised the Word of the Holy One of Israel.

whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent; their horses' hoofs seem like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind.

Their roaring shall be like a lion; they shall roar like young lions; for, they shall roar and lay hold of the prey, and carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it.

And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea; and one looks to the land, behold darkness, and lo, darkness! Distress! And the light shall be darkened by its clouds.

But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return and be consumed like the terebinth and like the oak being felled, yet has its stump; the holy seed is its stump.

For wickedness burns like the fire; it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall roll upwards like the lifting up of smoke.

I will send him against an ungodly nation, and against the people of My wrath. I will command him to take the plunder, and to strip off the spoil, and to trample them like the mud of the streets.

For he says, Are not my commanders all like kings?

Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?

For he says, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am wise. And I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the people like a strong man.

Therefore the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, shall send leanness among his fat ones; and under his glory He shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.

For though Your people Israel are like the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return; the full end which is decreed shall overflow with righteousness.

And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

and they shall be afraid. Pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them. They shall be in pain like a woman who travails. They shall be amazed at one another, their faces like flames.

All of them shall speak and say to you, Are you also as weak as we? Are you like us?

I will go up above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the Most High.

But you are cast out of your grave like a hateful branch, and like the clothing of those who are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; like a dead body trampled under foot.

Therefore my belly shall sound like a harp for Moab, and my bowels for Kir-hareseth.

In that day his strong cities shall be like a forsaken branch, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the sons of Israel; and it will become a ruin.

Woe to the multitude of many people, who make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations who make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!

The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters; but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.

For so Jehovah said to me, I will take My rest, and I will look on in My dwelling place, like a clear heat in the sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.

Jehovah has mixed a perverse spirit in its midst; and they have caused Egypt to go astray in all its work, like a drunkard staggers in his vomit.

In that day Egypt shall be like women; and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of Jehovah of Hosts, which He shakes over it.

Therefore my loins are filled with pain; pangs have taken hold on me like the pangs of a woman who travails; I was bowed down from hearing; I was troubled from seeing.