Insomuch that they run into darkness by fair day, and grope about them at the noonday, like as in the night.

And you shall know that your offspring [are] many, and your descendants like the vegetation of the earth.

You shall come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in in its season.

{I refused} to touch [them]; they [are] like {food that will make me ill}.

Or [is] my strength [like] the strength of stones? Or [is] my flesh bronze?

like as if one withdrew a good deed from his friend, and forsook the fear of the Almighty God?

My companions are treacherous like a torrent-bed; like a streambed of wadis they flow away,

For now you have become like these streams that are no help; you see a terror, and are afraid.

Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of a hireling?

Like a slave he longs for [the] shadow, and like a laborer he waits for his wages.

For if thou fasten thine eyes upon me, I come to naught like as a cloud is consumed and vanisheth away. Even so, he that goeth down to hell, cometh no more up,

Am I like the sea, or a whale, that You set a watch over me?

How long will you speak these things? and how long shall the words of your mouth be like a strong wind?

(For we are but of yesterday, and have no knowledge, because our days on earth are gone like a shade:)

and it taketh many roots: insomuch that it is like a house of stone.

“If he is snatched from his place [in the garden],
Then his place will forget him, saying, ‘I have never seen you.’

They go by like papyrus skiffs, like an eagle swoops down on [its] prey.

"For [he is] not a mortal like me [that] I can answer him, [that] {we can come to trial together}.

“Then I would speak and not fear Him;
But I am not like that in myself.

Are Your days like those of a human,
or Your years like those of a man,

Please remember that you made me like clay, but you turn me into dust [again]?

Have you not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?

If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. Again you show yourself powerful to me.

to [the] land of darkness, like [the] darkness of a deep shadow and {chaos}, so that it shines forth like darkness.'"

Yet a senseless man will make bold, though man be born like the foal of a wild ass.

For you will forget your trouble; you will remember it like water that has flowed away.

"{And your life will be brighter than noon}; [its] darkness will be like the morning.

But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall have no escape, and their hope shall be like the giving up of the spirit.

{I also have insight} like you; I am not more inferior than you. And {who does not know things like these}?

I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.

He that is ready to slip with his feet is like a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.

They grope in the dark without light, and he makes them to stagger like a drunken man.

[Will it be] well, if he examines you? Or can you deceive him like deceiving a human being?

Your proverbs are like unto ashes, your defenses are defenses of clay.

And he, like a rotten thing, consumes, as a garment that is moth-eaten.

He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down: he flees also as a shadow, and continues not.

Do You really take notice of one like this?
Will You bring me into judgment against You?

Look away from him, and let him desist until he enjoys his days like a laborer.

Yet at the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth branches like a plant.

the waters pierce through the very stones by little and little, the floods wash away the gravel and the earth. Even so destroyest thou the hope of man in like manner.

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

How much more abominable and filthy is man, who drinks iniquity like water?

Anguish and distress terrify him; they overpower him like a king ready for the battle.

Running against him like a man of war, covered by his thick breastplate; even like a king ready for the fight,

He shall shake off his unripe grapes like the vine, and shall cast off his blossom like the olive.

"I have heard many [things] like these; all of you [are] {miserable comforters}.

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

If you were in my place I could also talk like you.
I could string words together against you
and shake my head at you.

He breaks me with breach upon breach, he runs upon me like a warrior.

My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are like a shadow.

Wherefore are we accounted like beasts? or appear stupid, in thine eyes?

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

He has destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and my hope has he removed like a tree.

Yea he hath kindled against me his anger, and accounted me towards him like unto his adversaries;

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

Why do you pursue me like God? And are not satisfied with my flesh?

Yet he shall perish forever like his own refuse: they who have seen him shall say, Where is he?

He will fly away like a dream, and they will not find him, and he will be chased away like a vision of [the] night.

In vain, he toiled, he shall not swallow, like wealth to be restored, in which he cannot exult!

God gives him his desire, and sends the heat of his wrath on him, making it come down on him like rain.

The products of his house will be carried away [like] gushing waters on the day of his wrath.

They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.

[How often] are they like straw {before} the wind, and like chaff that [the] storm carries away?

Men who were snatched away before their time,
Whose foundations were poured out like a river?

Then you shall lay up gold like dust, and among the rock of the torrents of Ophir.

But he knows {the way that I take}; he tests me--I shall come out like gold.

For he will carry out {what he appoints for me}, and many [things] like these [are] with him

"Look, [like] wild donkeys in the desert they go out to their labor [as] searchers for the prey; [the] wilderness [is] {their} food for the young.

{At dusk} the murderer rises; he kills [the] needy and [the] poor, and in the night he is like a thief.

The eye of the ungodly is like the adulterer, that waiteth for the darkness, and sayeth thus in himself, 'Tush, there shall no man see me,' and so he disguiseth his face.

For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, for they know the terrors of the thick darkness.

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 a moth, and like a booth that the keeper makes.

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

The earth! from it cometh forth bread, And its under-part is turned like fire.

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

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.

And they waited for me like the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.

I chose out their way, and sat as chief, and dwelt like a king in the army, as one that comforts the mourners.

For very misery and hunger, they went about in the wilderness like wretches and beggars,

They were banished from the community -- people shouted at them like they would shout at thieves --

They brayed like animals among the bushes and were huddled together under the nettles.

“On my right the [rabble] brood rises;
They push my feet away, and they build up their ways of destruction against me [like an advancing army].

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

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

With great power God grasps my clothing; he binds me like the collar of my tunic.

Casting me into mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.

Let my wife grind [meal, like a bond slave] for another [man],
And let others kneel down over her.

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

if like Adam I have covered my transgressions, by hiding my iniquity in my heart,

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.

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

"But insomuch as ye will not speak, standing still like dumb men, and making no answer: