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.

Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.

“My soul refuses to touch them;
Such things are like loathsome food to me [sickening and repugnant].

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,

“Indeed, you have now become like a dried-up stream,
You see a terror [believing me to be a victim of the wrath of God] and are afraid [to be compassionate].

Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an 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 wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy 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 pass by like skiffs of reed; as an eagle that swoops upon the prey.

But if a man like myself -- I answer him, We come together into judgment.

Otherwise, I would speak without being terrified of him, because I'm not like that inside 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]?

Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?

‘Should I lift my head up, You would hunt me like a lion;
And again You would show Your marvelous power against me.

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

For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt.

For your sorrow will go from your memory, like waters flowing 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 a heart like you, I am not fallen more than you, And with whom is there not 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 maketh 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 remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.

Though I am like a rotten thing that consumeth, Like a garment that is moth-eaten.

He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth 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 through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a 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?

How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?

“Distress and anxiety terrify him,
They overpower him like a king ready for battle.

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

“He will fail to bring his grapes to maturity [leaving them to wither unnourished] on the vine,
And will cast off blossoms [and fail to bring forth fruit] like the olive tree.

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

“Is there no end to [your futile] words of wind?
Or what plagues you [so much] that you [so boldly] answer [me like this]?

I also, like you, might speak, If your soul were in my soul's stead. I might join against you with words, And nod at you with my head.

He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.

“My eye has grown dim (unexpressive) because of grief,
And all my [body’s] members are [wasted away] 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 hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath 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 persecute me as God does?
Why are you not satisfied with my flesh (anguish)?

Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?

“He flies away like a dream and cannot be found;
Yes, he is 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.

“Are they like straw before the wind,
And like chaff that the storm steals and carries away?

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

He shall give thee a harvest, which in plenty and abundance shall exceed the dust of the earth, and the gold of Ophir like river stones.

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 like darkness to them.
Surely they are familiar with the terrors of darkness!

Drought and heat snatch away [the] snow waters, [like] Sheol [snatches away] those [who have] sinned.

“A mother will forget him;
The worm feeds on him until he is no longer remembered.
And wickedness will be broken like a tree [which cannot be restored].

They are exalted for a little, and are no more; they are laid low; like all other are they gathered, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.

"Let my enemy be like [the] wicked and my opponent like [the] unrighteous,

“Though he heaps up silver like dust
And piles up clothing like clay,

“He builds his house like a spider’s web,
Like a (temporary) hut which a watchman makes.

Terrors overtake him like waters; A tempest stealeth him away 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 turban!

"And I thought, 'I will pass away in my nest, and like the phoenix I shall multiply [my] days.

“After I spoke, they did not speak again,
And my speech dropped upon them [like a refreshing shower].

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

“I chose a way for them and sat as chief,
And dwelt as a king among his soldiers,
As one who comforts 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 --

“Among the bushes they cry out [like wild animals];
Beneath the prickly scrub they gather and huddle together.

“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 against me; they pursue mine honour as the wind; and my welfare is passed away like a cloud.

“By the great force [of my disease] my garment (skin) is disfigured and blemished;
It binds about me [choking me] like the collar of my coat.

He hath cast me into the 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 mine iniquity in my bosom,

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.

“Now Job has not directed his words against me [therefore I have no reason to be offended],
Nor will I answer him with arguments like yours. [I speak for truth, not for revenge.]

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