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Do not lie in wait [like] an outlaw against the home of the righteous; do not do violence [to] his dwelling place.
and your poverty will come running, and your lack like an armed warrior.
Like the cold of snow on a day of harvest [is] a faithful messenger to those who send him, and the soul of his master is refreshed.
[Like] clouds and wind when there is no rain, [so too is] a man who boasts in a gift of deception.
[Like] a club and sword and a sharp arrow [is] a man who bears false witness against his neighbor.
[Like] one who removes a garment on a cold day, [or like] vinegar on natron, [is] he who sings songs to a heavy heart.
[Like] cold water upon a weary soul, [so too is] good news from a distant place.
[Like] a muddied spring or a polluted fountain is the righteous who gives way before the wicked.
A breached city [where] there is no wall [is like] a man who {has no} self-control for his spirit.
Like snow in the summer and like rain at the harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool.
Like the sparrow [is] to fluttering and like the swallow [is] to flying, so an undeserved curse does not go forth.
Do not answer a fool according to his folly lest you become like him--even you.
[Like] cutting off feet [or] drinking violence, so [is] he who sends messages in the hand of a fool.
[Like] legs that hang limp from a lame person, so [is] a proverb in the mouth of fools.
Like binding a stone in a sling, so [is] giving honor to a fool.
[Like] a thorn that goes up in the hand of a drunkard, so [is] a proverb in the mouth of fools.
[Like] an archer who wounds everyone, so [is] he who hires a fool or he who hires passersby.
Like a dog returning to his vomit [is] a fool reverting to his folly.
Like a maniac who shoots firebrands, arrows, and death,
The words of a whisperer [are] like delicious morsels, and they go down to the inner parts of the body.
[Like] {impure silver} which overlays an earthen vessel, [so are] smooth lips and an evil heart.
Like a bird that strays from its nest, so is a man who strays from his place.
The wicked flee, but no one pursues, but the righteous is bold like a lion.
[Like] a roaring lion and a charging bear [is] a wicked ruler over a poor people.
She is like the ships of a merchant; from far off she brings her food;
I said to myself concerning {humans}, "God sifts them in order to show them that they are like beasts."
For the fate of {humans} and the fate of the beast is {the same}. The death of the one is like the death of the other, for {both are mortal}. Man has no advantage over the beast, for both are fleeting.
Like the sound of thorns under a pot, so also the laughter of fools. This also [is] vanity!
{For wisdom offers protection like money offers protection}. But knowledge [has] an advantage--wisdom restores life to its possessor.
Who [is] like the sage? Who knows [the] interpretation of a thing? A man's wisdom makes his face shine, and the hardness of his face is changed.
But it will not go well with the wicked, and they will not prolong [their] days, like the shadow; because there is no fearing {God's presence}.
For man does not know his time. Just as fish are caught in a cruel net and like birds who are seized in a snare, so also {humans} are ensnared at a cruel time when it falls suddenly upon them.
I have even seen slaves [riding] on horses and princes walking like slaves on the earth!
The words of the wise [are] like cattle goads; the collections of the sages [are] like pricks inflicted by one shepherd.
I [am] black but beautiful, {O maidens of Jerusalem}, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.
Tell me, [you] whom my {heart} loves, where do you pasture your flock, where do your sheep lie down at the noon? {For why should I be like} one who is veiled beside the flocks of your companions?
Like a lily among the thorns, so [is] my love among the maidens.
My beloved is like a gazelle or {a young stag}. Look! {He is} standing behind our wall, gazing {through} the window, looking {through} the lattice.
Until the day breathes and the shadows flee, turn, my beloved! {Be like} a gazelle or {young stag} on the cleft mountains.
What [is] this coming up from the desert like a column of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense from all the fragrant powders of the merchant?
{Oh my}! You [are] beautiful, my beloved! {Oh my}! You [are] beautiful! Your eyes [are] doves from behind your veil. Your hair [is] like a flock of goats that move down from the mountains of Gilead.
Your teeth [are] like a flock of shorn ewes that came up from the washing, all of them bearing twins, and there is none bereaved among them.
Your lips [are] like a thread of crimson, and your mouth [is] lovely. Your temple [is] like pomegranate from behind your veil.
Your neck [is] like the tower of David, built in courses; a thousand {ornaments} are hung on it, all the shields of the warriors.
Your two breasts [are] like two fawns, twins of a gazelle that feed among the lilies.
Your lips drip nectar, [my] bride; honey and milk [are] under your lips; the scent of your garments [is] like the scent of Lebanon.
His eyes [are] like doves beside springs of water, bathed in milk, {set like mounted jewels}.
His cheeks [are] like beds of spice, a tower of fragrances; his lips [are] lilies dripping liquid myrrh.
His legs [are] columns of alabaster, set on bases of gold; his appearance [is] like Lebanon, choice as {its cedars}.
Turn away your eyes from before me, for they overwhelm me. Your hair [is] like a flock of the goats that moves down from Gilead.
Your teeth [are] like a flock of the ewes that have come up from the washing, all of them bearing twins, and there is none bereaved among them.
Your cheeks {behind} your veil [are] like halves of a pomegranate.
"Who [is] this that looks down like the dawn, beautiful as the moon, {bright as the sun}, {overwhelming as an army with banners}?"
How beautiful are your feet in sandals, O royal princess! The curves of your {thighs} [are] like {jewels}, the work of the hands of a craftsman.
Your neck [is] like a tower of ivory; your eyes [are] pools in Heshbon at the gate of Beth Rabbim. Your nose [is] like the tower of Lebanon {looking out over Damascus}.
{Your head crowns you like Carmel}; the flowing locks of your head [are] like {purple tapestry}; a king is held captive in the tresses!
{Your stature} [is] like the palm tree, and your breasts [are] like clusters.
I say, "I will climb up the palm tree; I will lay hold of its fruit clusters." Let your breasts [be pleasing] like clusters of the vine and the scent of your breath like the apples.
Your palate [is] like the best wine that goes down for my beloved, smoothly gliding over my lips and teeth.
I [was] a wall, and my breasts [were] like the towers, {so [my betrothed] viewed me with great delight}.
Flee, my beloved! {Be like a gazelle} or {a young stag} upon {the perfumed mountains}!
Your country [is] desolate, your cities [are] burned [with] fire; [As for] your land, aliens are devouring it in your presence, and [it is] desolate, like devastation [by] foreigners.
And the daughter of Zion is left like a booth in a vineyard, like a shelter in a cucumber field, like a city that is besieged.
If Yahweh of hosts had not left us survivors, we would have been as few as Sodom, we would have become like Gomorrah.
Your new moons and your appointed festivals my soul hates; they have become to me like burden, I am not able to bear [them].
"Come now, and let us argue," says Yahweh. "Even though your sins are like scarlet, they will be white like snow; even though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.
How has a faithful city become like a whore? Full of justice, righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.
And I will turn my hand against you; I will purify your dross like lye, and I will remove all [of] your tin.
For you shall be like an oak withering its leaves, and like a garden where there is no water for her.
And the strong [man] shall become like tinder, and his work like a spark. And both of them shall burn together, and there is not one to quench [them]."
For you have forsaken your people, house of Jacob, because they are full from [the] east, and [of] soothsayers like the Philistines, and {they make alliances} with the offspring of foreigners.
The look on their faces testifies against them and they declare their sin like Sodom; they do not hide [it]. Woe to their soul! For they have dealt out evil to themselves.
Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and dry grass sinks down [in the] flame, so their root will become like [the] stench, and their blossom will go up like [the] dust. For they have rejected the instruction of Yahweh of hosts, and they have treated the word of the holy one of Israel with contempt.
Therefore {Yahweh's wrath was kindled} against his people, and he stretched out his hand against them and struck them, and the mountains quaked, and their corpses were like refuse in [the] middle of [the] streets.
Whose arrows are sharp, and all of his bows are bent. The hoofs of his horses are reckoned like flint, and his wheels like the storm wind.
His roaring [is] like the lion, and he roars like young lions. And he growls and seizes his prey, and he carries [it] off, and not one can rescue [it].
And he will roar over him on that day like [the] roaring of [the] sea, and [if] one looks to the land, look! Darkness! Distress! And [the] light grows dark with its clouds.
And {even if only a tenth part remain}, {again she will be destroyed} like terebinth or like [an] oak, which although felled, a tree stump [remains] in them. [The] seed of holiness [will be] her tree stump."
When it was reported to the house of David, saying "Aram stands by Ephraim," his heart and the heart of his people shook like the shaking of the trees of [the] forest because of [the] wind.
And [as for] all of the hills that they hoed with the hoe, you will not go there, [for] fear of briers and thornbushes. And it will become like pastureland [for] cattle and overtrodden land [for] sheep.
And he will become like a sanctuary and a stumbling-stone, and like a stumbling-rock for the two houses of Israel, like a trap and a snare for the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Look! I and the children whom Yahweh has given to me [are] like signs and portents in Israel from Yahweh of hosts, the one who dwells on the mountain of Zion.
for teaching and for testimony?" {surely they [who] speak like this have no dawn}.
For wickedness burned like fire; it consumed brier and thorn. And it kindled the thickets of the forest, and they swirled upward [in] a column of smoke.
The land was burned through the wrath of Yahweh of hosts, and the people became like fire fuel. {People had no compassion toward each other}.
I send him against a godless nation, and I command him against the people of my wrath, to capture spoil and to carry off plunder, and to make them a trampling place, like [the] clay of [the] streets.
[Is] not Calno like Carchemish? [Is] not Hamath like Arpad? [Is] not Samaria like Damascus?
For he says, "I have done [it] by the strength of my hand and by my wisdom, for I have understanding, and I have removed [the] boundaries of peoples, and I have plundered their stores, and like a bull I have brought down {the inhabitants}.
And my hand has found, like nest, the wealth of the peoples, and like the gathering of forsaken eggs, I myself have gathered all the earth. And [there] was no fluttering wing or open mouth or chirp."
Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, will send leanness among his sturdy warriors, and a burning like [the] burning of fire will burn under his glory.
And the light of Israel will become like a fire, and his holy one like a flame, and it will burn and devour his thorns and briers in one day.
And he will destroy the glory of his forest and orchard {completely}, and it will be like the wasting away of one who is sick.
For though your people Israel was like the sand of the sea, [only] a remnant of it will return. Annihilation [is] determined, overflowing [with] righteousness.
And a cow and a bear shall graze; their young shall lie down together. And a lion shall eat straw like the cattle.
Wail, for the day of Yahweh [is] near; it will come like destruction from Shaddai!
and they will be dismayed. Pangs and labor pains will seize [them]; they will tremble like a woman giving birth. {They will stare at one another}, {their faces flushing}.
And this shall happen: like a hunted gazelle or sheep {with none to gather them}, they will each turn to his [own] people, and they will each flee to his [own] land.
And Babylon, [the] glory of kingdoms, the splendor of the Chaldeans' pride, will be like {when God overthrew} Sodom and Gomorrah.
All of them will respond and say to you, 'You yourself also were made weak like us! You have become the same as us!'
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