The king's young men told him, "Look, Haman is standing in the courtyard." The king said, "Let him come in."

Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs attending the king, observed, "Look there! A pole is standing 50 cubits high at Haman's house that he prepared for Mordecai, whose report benefitted the king!"

King Ahasuerus told Queen Esther and Mordecai the Jew, "Look, I've given Haman's property to Esther, and they have hanged him on the pole because he tried to harm the Jewish people.

Then the LORD asked Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one like him on earth. The man is blameless as well as upright. He fears God and keeps away from evil."

The LORD asked Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one like him on earth. The man is blameless as well as upright. He fears God and keeps away from evil. He remains firm in his integrity, even though you have been urging me to overwhelm him without cause."

But he replied to her, "You're talking like foolish women do. Are we to accept what is good from God but not tragedy?" Throughout all of this, Job did not sin by what he said.

"Or why was I not buried like a stillborn child, like babies who never saw the light?

"As far as I'm concerned, my food comes to me in the form of sighs, and my cries of anguish pour out like water.

"Will you get offended if somebody tries to talk to you? Who can keep from speaking at a time like this?

Look! You've admonished many people, and you've strengthened feeble hands.

how much less confidence does he have in those who dwell in houses of clay; who were formed from a foundation in dust and can perish like a moth?

You'll know that you'll have many children; and that your offspring will be like the grass of the earth.

You'll go to your grave at a ripe old age; like a stack of grain that's harvested at just the right time.

"Look! We have thought all this through, and what we've said is true; So please listen and learn for your own good!"

I cannot bring myself to touch them; food like this makes me sick."

But my brothers have acted treacherously like a cascading river, like torrential rivers that overflow.

"And now you're all just like them, aren't you? You see my terror and are terrified.

"Men have harsh servitude on earth, do they not? His days are like those of a hired laborer, are they not?

I'm like a servant who longs for the shade, like a hired laborer who is looking for his wages.

The eyes of the one who sees me won't see me anymore; your eyes will look for me but I won't be around!

Why won't you look away from me? Why don't you leave me alone so I can swallow my saliva?

"How long will you keep talking like this? How long will you keep talking like a wind storm?

They pass by like a ship made of reeds, like an eagle swooping down on its prey.

If I were to say, "Let me forget my complaint,' change the expression on my face, and look cheerful,

He's not a man like me, so that I can answer him, or that we can enter into litigation with one another.

Otherwise, I would speak without being terrified of him, because I'm not like that inside myself."

Do you have eyes made of flesh? Can you look at things as humans do?

""Please remember that you've made me like clay and you'll return me to dust.

Didn't you pour me out like milk and let me congeal like cheese?

""Woe to me if I'm guilty! If I'm innocent, I cannot lift my head, because I am filled with disgrace. Look at my affliction!

But if I do lift up my head, you will hunt me like a lion! You will perform miracles in order to fight against me.

It's a gloomy land, like deepest darkness; where there's no order, and where even the brightness is like darkness.'"

You'll forget your suffering; you'll remember it like water that has evaporated.

Your life will be brighter than noonday. Even its darkness will be like dawn.

But what the wicked look for will fail; their way of escape will be taken away from them; their only hope is to take their final breath."

Like you, I also have understanding. I'm not inferior to you; who doesn't know things like this?"

They grope in the dark without light; he causes them to stagger around like a drunkard."

"Look, I've seen everything; I've listened carefully and I understand.

"Look, now! I've prepared my case for court. I know that I'm going to win.

So I'm a man who wears out like something rotten, like a garment that has become moth-eaten."

He springs up like a flower and then withers. Like a shadow, he disappears and doesn't last.

Indeed, have you opened your eyes on one like this to bring me into a legal fight with you?

Look away from him and leave him alone, so he can enjoy his time, like a hired worker."

the presence of water will make it to bud so that it sprouts new branches like a young plant.

Water wears away stones; floods wash away topsoil from the land but you destroy the hope of human beings just like that!

that you turn your anger against God and speak words like this?

Look, if God doesn't trust his holy ones, if even the heavens aren't pure as he looks at them,

then how much less is one who is abhorred and corrupted, such as a man who drinks injustice like water?"

Distress and pressure terrify him; they overwhelm him, like a king poised for attack.

"He is like a vine that drops its unripe grapes; like an olive tree that loses its blossoms.

"I've heard many things like this. What miserable comforters you all are!

Will windy words like yours never end? What is upsetting you that you keep on arguing?

"I could also talk like you if only you were in my place! Then I would put together an argument against you. I would shake my head at you

Attack follows attack as he breaks through my defenses! He runs over me like a mighty warrior.

Will it go down to the bars that lock the doors of the afterlife? Will we descend together into the dust?"

Why do you think we're like dumb animals? Do you think we're stupid?

Indeed, the residences of the wicked are like this; and so are the homes of those who don't know God."

He is breaking me down on every side, and now it's too late for me; he has uprooted my hopes like a tree.

Those who live in my house and my maidservants, too! treat me like a stranger; they think I'm a foreigner.

whom I will see for myself. My own eyes will look at him there won't be anyone else for me! He is the culmination of my innermost desire."

he'll perish forever, like his own excrement; those who saw him will ask, "Where is he?'

He'll vanish like a dream, and no one will find him; he will be chased away like a night vision."

He won't look at the rivers the torrents of honey and curd.

Look at me, be appalled, and then shut up!

They release their children to play like sheep; their young ones dance about,

May they become like a straw, blown away before the wind; like a chaff that's swept off by a storm.

"Look! I know your thoughts, your plans are going to harm me.

"Look! If I go east, he isn't there! If I go to the west, I don't perceive him.

Because he knows the road on which I travel, when he had tested me, I'll come out like gold.

"Look! Like wild donkeys in the wilderness, they work diligently as they seek wild game in the desert, food for them and their young ones.

The murderer rises at dawn to kill the poor and needy; at night, he is like a thief.

The womb will forget them. Maggots will find them to be a delicacy! They won't be remembered anymore, their iniquity will be cut to pieces like firewood.

They're exalted momentarily, but then they are gone; they are humbled, just like all the others. They are cut down like heads of corn.

"May my enemy be like the wicked; my adversary like the unjust.

Look! All of you have been watching, so why have you become so completely worthless?

"Though he hoards silver like dust, and stores away garments like clay,

"He has built his house like a moth's cocoon, like a temporary sunshade that a watchman makes.

Terror will overtake him like a flood, at night, a tornado will sweep him away.

like when I was in my prime and God trusted me with his secrets!

I put on righteousness like clothing; my just decisions were like a robe and a turban.

I set an example of the way to live, as a leader would; I lived like a king among his army; like one who comforts mourners."

They bray like donkeys among the bushes and huddle together under the desert weeds.

They come like those who breach through a wall; as everything crashes around me they'll roll on and on!

My greatest fears have overcome me; my honor is assaulted as though by a wind storm; my prosperity evaporates like a morning cloud."

My clothes are disheveled by his forceful treatment of me; he restricts my movement like the collar of my cloak.

"He tossed me into the mire; I've become like dust and ashes.

I cry for help to you, but you won't answer me; I stand still, but you only look at me.

if I've observed someone who is about to die for lack of clothes or if I have no clothing to give to the poor,

if I look at the sun when it shines or the moon as it rises in steady splendor,

"Have I covered my transgression like other people, to conceal iniquity within myself?

I'll give an account for every step I've taken; I'll approach him confidently like a Commander-in-Chief."

"Look! I have waited to hear your speech, so I listened to your insights while you searched for the right words to say.

My insides feel like unvented wine, like it's about to burst like a new wineskin.

Look! I've begun to speak, and I'm fashioning my words.

Look! As far as God is concerned, I'm just like you are I, too, have been pinched off from a piece of clay.

"He'll sing to mankind with these words: "I've sinned. I have twisted what is right. Yet he has not repaid me like I deserve.

Since the ear tests words like a palate tastes food,

"What man is like Job, who drinks mockery like water,

"Observe the heavens! Take a look around! Look! The clouds are higher than you, aren't they?

"Indeed, God is exalted in his power. Who is like him as a teacher?