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"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.

Verse ConceptsUnprofitable SinsGod Has ForgivenWe Have Sinned

But if you have something to say, answer me;
speak, for I would like to justify you.

Verse ConceptsMan Vindicates

For like as the mouth tasteth the meats, so the ear proveth and discerneth the words.

Verse ConceptsTongueTesting Other ThingsThe TongueTests

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

For a man like thyself is thy wickedness, And for a son of man thy righteousness.

Verse ConceptsActing For Oneselfwickednesshurting

He withdraws not His eyes from the righteous, but they are like kings on the throne; yes, He causes them to sit forever, and they are very high.

Verse ConceptsRighteous, TheGod Seeing The RighteousPeople Of The Kingdom

They come to their end while they are still young, their life is short like that of those who are used for sex purposes in the worship of their gods.

Verse ConceptsProstitutionShrinesYouthEarly Death

"Now I'll conclude with this: my heart is trembling violently; it feels like it's about to leap from my body!

Verse ConceptsIndividuals TremblingNervousness

Hast thou with him spread out the sky, firm, like a molten mirror?

Verse ConceptsBronzeMirrorsCreation Of The SkyArrogantly Like God

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

Verse ConceptsGod EnquiringAnticipationTeaching GodPreparing For Action

Or [who] shut up the sea with doors when it broke forth, [like] it had issued out of the womb,

Verse ConceptsWombDivine Power Over NatureBeachesShutting DoorsThe OceanThe Sea

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

Verse ConceptsCold WeatherDeep Seaslakes

when the dust hardens like cast metal
and the clods of dirt stick together?

Verse ConceptsThings Stuck Together

The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully,
but are her feathers and plumage like the stork’s?

Verse ConceptsJoy, And Human ExperienceWingsWings Of BirdsFeathersOstriches

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

Verse ConceptsNosesCreatures JumpingNeighing And Braying

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

Verse ConceptsGod EnquiringTeaching GodPreparing For ActionMasculinity

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

Verse ConceptsCreation, Origin OfGrassAnimals EatingDinosaursmuscles

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

Verse ConceptsCedarSinewsmuscles

Can you play with him like a bird
or put him on a leash for your girls?

Verse ConceptsPets

[His] strong scales are [his] pride, shut up together [like] a close seal.

By his sneezings a light flashes, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.

Verse ConceptsDawnNosesSneezing

Out of his nostrils, proceedeth smoke, like a blown pot and rushes;

Verse ConceptsReedsSmokeNostrilsWeedsmokingpotSmoke Used Poetically

His heart, is hardened like a stone, yea hardened, like the nether millstone;

Verse ConceptsMillstonesRocksHardnessOther References To The Heart

He regards iron like straw, and hardened bronze like a dead tree.

Verse ConceptsBronzeIronWood

The arrow can't make him flee. Sling stones are like chaff to him.

Verse ConceptsChaffSlingsThrowing Stones

Clubs are like twigs; he laughs at the whoosh of the javelin.

Verse ConceptsLaughter

His undersides are like sharp stones: he spreads sharp pointed marks upon the mire.

Verse ConceptsThreshingThings UnderMarshes

The sea is luminescent behind him; his wake turns the sea white, like those with gray hair.

Verse ConceptsWhiteThe Sea Stirred Up

And it cometh to pass after Jehovah's speaking these words unto Job, that Jehovah saith unto Eliphaz the Temanite, 'Burned hath Mine anger against thee, and against thy two friends, because ye have not spoken concerning Me rightly, like My servant Job.

Verse ConceptsGod Angry With IndividualsFriends

And now, take to you seven bullocks and seven rams, and go ye unto My servant Job, and ye have caused a burnt-offering to ascend for you; and Job My servant doth pray for you, for surely his face I accept, so as not to do with you folly, because ye have not spoken concerning Me rightly, like My servant Job.

Verse ConceptsFolly, Effects OfIntercessory PrayerSeven AnimalsSacrificing Cattle Sheep And Goats

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.

Verse ConceptsBeautifulBad ParentsInheritance, MaterialParents Duty To ChildrenBeauty, In WomenInheritanceWomen's BeautyBeautiful Women

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

Verse ConceptsLionsPeople Torn To Pieces

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.

Verse ConceptsLionsNetsMan TrappingLike Creaturesrehabilitation

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

Verse ConceptsMountainsMusicBirds, Figurative UseEscaping To MountainsResolving Conflictflying

Will those who do evil ever learn? They devour my people like they devour bread, and never call on the LORD.

Verse ConceptsEating, Metaphorical UseCalling upon GodEvildoersNot PrayingThose Who Were Ignorantatheism

He does not charge interest when he lends his money. He does not take bribes to testify against the innocent. The one who lives like this will never be upended.

Verse ConceptsCreditAcceptance Of BribesInterestLendingMoney, Stewardship OfImmovable SaintsNot MovedAvoiding BribesBriberyMoney Blessingslent

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

Verse ConceptsGrinding PeopleMarshesdustcrushes

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

Verse ConceptsAthletesWeddingsCompetitionsGoing OutsideSunRaceheroes

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.

Verse ConceptsFurnacesWicked Described AsBurning PeopleGod Will Be Angry


Many [enemies like] bulls have surrounded me;
Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me.

Verse ConceptsBullsWicked Described AsEnemies SurroundingWild OxUnicorns

As waters I have been poured out, And separated themselves have all my bones, My heart hath been like wax, It is melted in the midst of my bowels.

Verse ConceptsHuman EmotionEnjoyment, Lack OfHeart, HumanPouringMeltingWaxBowelsDislocatingMessianic Propheciesbreasts

My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

Verse ConceptsTongueFeverThings Stuck TogetherCreatures Returning To DustGod KillingGod Killing Individuals

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

Verse ConceptsdogsEnemies SurroundingMessianic Prophecies

He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.

Verse ConceptsCalvesWild OxUnicornsjumping

Lord, when You showed Your favor,
You made me stand like a strong mountain;
when You hid Your face, I was terrified.

Verse ConceptsFace Of GodTrouble, Causes OfGod HidingSeven Mountains

I have heard the slander of many; it is like terror all around me, as they conspire together and plot to take my life.

Verse ConceptsFriendlessnessAliancesTrapCharacter AssassinationPlottingAttempting To Kill MeFear Will Cometerrorism

For the weight of your hand was on me day and night; my body became dry like the earth in summer. (Selah.)

Verse ConceptsAffliction Day And NightdefeatSummerGod's HandHot WeatherGod's Hands In OppositionNo Strength LeftPsalm Interjections

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.

Verse ConceptsMulesBridlesHorsesRestraintRopesStubbornnessDivine RestraintsSelf WillBinding As Animals

Let thy merciful kindness, O LORD, be upon us, like as we do put our trust in thee.

Verse ConceptsHope, In GodHope And Love

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

Verse ConceptsAngels, Ministry To UnbelieversLight As Chaff

Transgression speaks [like an oracle] to the wicked (godless) [deep] within his heart;
There is no fear (dread) of God before his eyes.

Verse ConceptsAgnosticismIrreverenceOraclesReverence, And Social BehaviourSin, Universality OfNature Of The HeartNo Fear Of God

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

Verse ConceptsEternal DeathSmokeDisappearanceThe Wicked Will PerishPurity Of New CreationsmokingSmoke Used Poetically

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

Verse ConceptsBurdensBackConviction Of SinHeavy BurdensGuiltBeing Overwhelmedoverwhelmed

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

Verse ConceptsDeafnessdisabilitiesMutenessSpiritual DeafnessIndividuals Being SilentUnhearingnegativity

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

Verse ConceptsUnhearing

O LORD my God, great are the wondrous works which thou hast done, like as be also thy thoughts, which are to us-ward; and yet there is no man that ordereth them unto thee. If I should declare them, and speak of them, they should be more than I am able to express.

Verse ConceptsAmazingGod, Perfection OfGuidance, God's Promises OfPlansGod, Works OfUncountableGod's ThoughtsGod's PlanTrusting God's PlanGods PlanWorking For GodThoughtsBeing BeautifulGod's Plan For UsWorking For The Lordworkingsurprisesdeeds

Like the desire of the roe for the water-streams, so is my soul's desire for you, O God.

Verse ConceptsMusicSaints, Communion With GodDeer Etc.BrooksDeer


These things I [vividly] remember as I pour out my soul;
How I used to go along before the great crowd of people and lead them in procession to the house of God [like a choirmaster before his singers, timing the steps to the music and the chant of the song],
With the voice of joy and thanksgiving, a great crowd keeping a festival.

Verse ConceptsCrowdsMultitudesJoy In WorshipShouting For JoyHolidayPraise, Manner And Methods OfThanksgivingPrayer, Offered WithGoing TogetherProcessionsPeople Going BeforePeople RememberingThanking GodFestivals Observed

Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.

Verse ConceptsSheepGod Scattering IsraelScattered Like Sheep

Yet because of you we are killed all day long; we are treated like sheep at the slaughtering block.

Verse ConceptsSheepKilling The InnocentAll Day

My heart overflows with a noble theme. I recite my verses for the king. My tongue is like the pen of a skillful writer.

Verse ConceptsCarvings Of FlowersKingship, HumanMusicPensSkillSongsTongueWedding SongsInspirationJournalizing

All your garments smell like myrrh, aloes, and cassia. Out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made you glad.

Verse ConceptsSweet OdoursAdornment, Of BuildingsAnointing With OilArtHerbs And SpicesIvoryMyrrhPerfumePlantsStringsSmellsTrees

The nations were angry, the kingdoms were moved; at the sound of his voice the earth became like wax.

Verse ConceptsChaosKingdomsEarth, Judgment OfRoar Of NationsGod's VoiceDisorder Among The NationsLucifer

The hill of Zion is like a fair plant, whereof all the land rejoiceth: upon the north side lieth the city of the great King.

Verse ConceptsGod, Greatness OfBeautifulBeauty Of JerusalemBeauty Of NatureThe Beauty Of Naturezion