Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever—”

Adam's Descendants to Noah

This is the book of the generations of Adam. When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God.

When Adam had lived 130 years, he fathered a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.

He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. Therefore it is said, “Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the Lord.”

And Lot lifted up his eyes and saw that the Jordan Valley was well watered everywhere like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, in the direction of Zoar. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)

And he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the land of the valley, and he looked and, behold, the smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a furnace.

The first came out red, all his body like a hairy cloak, so they called his name Esau.

And he did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like his brother Esau's hands. So he blessed him.

Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I loathe my life because of the Hittite women. If Jacob marries one of the Hittite women like these, one of the women of the land, what good will my life be to me?”

Your offspring shall be like the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south, and in you and your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

And Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done, that you have tricked me and driven away my daughters like captives of the sword?

He likewise instructed the second and the third and all who followed the droves, “You shall say the same thing to Esau when you find him,

Leah likewise and her children drew near and bowed down. And last Joseph and Rachel drew near, and they bowed down.

Jacob said, “No, please, if I have found favor in your sight, then accept my present from my hand. For I have seen your face, which is like seeing the face of God, and you have accepted me.

But they said, “Should he treat our sister like a prostitute?”

Then Judah said to Tamar his daughter-in-law, “Remain a widow in your father's house, till Shelah my son grows up”—for he feared that he would die, like his brothers. So Tamar went and remained in her father's house.

And Pharaoh said to his servants, “Can we find a man like this, in whom is the Spirit of God?”

And Joseph stored up grain in great abundance, like the sand of the sea, until he ceased to measure it, for it could not be measured.

Joseph saw his brothers and recognized them, but he treated them like strangers and spoke roughly to them. “Where do you come from?” he said. They said, “From the land of Canaan, to buy food.”

Joseph said to them, “What deed is this that you have done? Do you not know that a man like me can indeed practice divination?”

Then Judah went up to him and said, “Oh, my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not your anger burn against your servant, for you are like Pharaoh himself.

The midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, for they are vigorous and give birth before the midwife comes to them.”

Again, the Lord said to him, “Put your hand inside your cloak.” And he put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous like snow.

Then God said, “Put your hand back inside your cloak.” So he put his hand back inside his cloak, and when he took it out, behold, it was restored like the rest of his flesh.

Then the foremen of the people of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, “Why do you treat your servants like this?

Moses and Aaron Before Pharaoh

And the Lord said to Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron shall be your prophet.

And he said, “Tomorrow.” Moses said, “Be it as you say, so that you may know that there is no one like the Lord our God.

For this time I will send all my plagues on you yourself, and on your servants and your people, so that you may know that there is none like me in all the earth.

The floods covered them; they went down into the depths like a stone.

In the greatness of your majesty you overthrow your adversaries; you send out your fury; it consumes them like stubble.

You blew with your wind; the sea covered them; they sank like lead in the mighty waters.

“Who is like you, O Lord, among the gods? Who is like you, majestic in holiness, awesome in glorious deeds, doing wonders?

And when the dew had gone up, there was on the face of the wilderness a fine, flake-like thing, fine as frost on the ground.

Now the house of Israel called its name manna. It was like coriander seed, white, and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.

Now Mount Sinai was wrapped in smoke because the Lord had descended on it in fire. The smoke of it went up like the smoke of a kiln, and the whole mountain trembled greatly.

“You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

“If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be like a moneylender to him, and you shall not exact interest from him.

but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the beasts of the field may eat. You shall do likewise with your vineyard, and with your olive orchard.

and they saw the God of Israel. There was under his feet as it were a pavement of sapphire stone, like the very heaven for clearness.

Now the appearance of the glory of the Lord was like a devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the sight of the people of Israel.

three cups made like almond blossoms, each with calyx and flower, on one branch, and three cups made like almond blossoms, each with calyx and flower, on the other branch—so for the six branches going out of the lampstand.

And on the lampstand itself there shall be four cups made like almond blossoms, with their calyxes and flowers,

And you shall make loops of blue on the edge of the outermost curtain in the first set. Likewise you shall make loops on the edge of the outermost curtain in the second set.

And likewise for its length on the north side there shall be hangings a hundred cubits long, its pillars twenty and their bases twenty, of bronze, but the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.

And the skillfully woven band on it shall be made like it and be of one piece with it, of gold, blue and purple and scarlet yarns, and fine twined linen.

and two chains of pure gold, twisted like cords; and you shall attach the corded chains to the settings.

There shall be twelve stones with their names according to the names of the sons of Israel. They shall be like signets, each engraved with its name, for the twelve tribes.

You shall make for the breastpiece twisted chains like cords, of pure gold.

It shall have an opening for the head in the middle of it, with a woven binding around the opening, like the opening in a garment, so that it may not tear.

“You shall make a plate of pure gold and engrave on it, like the engraving of a signet, ‘Holy to the Lord.’

It shall not be poured on the body of an ordinary person, and you shall make no other like it in composition. It is holy, and it shall be holy to you.

Whoever compounds any like it or whoever puts any of it on an outsider shall be cut off from his people.’”

Whoever makes any like it to use as perfume shall be cut off from his people.”

Moses Makes New Tablets

The Lord said to Moses, “Cut for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.

So Moses cut two tablets of stone like the first. And he rose early in the morning and went up on Mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, and took in his hand two tablets of stone.

He made loops of blue on the edge of the outermost curtain of the first set. Likewise he made them on the edge of the outermost curtain of the second set.

three cups made like almond blossoms, each with calyx and flower, on one branch, and three cups made like almond blossoms, each with calyx and flower, on the other branch—so for the six branches going out of the lampstand.

And on the lampstand itself were four cups made like almond blossoms, with their calyxes and flowers,

And the skillfully woven band on it was of one piece with it and made like it, of gold, blue and purple and scarlet yarns, and fine twined linen, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

They made the onyx stones, enclosed in settings of gold filigree, and engraved like the engravings of a signet, according to the names of the sons of Israel.

There were twelve stones with their names according to the names of the sons of Israel. They were like signets, each engraved with its name, for the twelve tribes.

And they made on the breastpiece twisted chains like cords, of pure gold.

and the opening of the robe in it was like the opening in a garment, with a binding around the opening, so that it might not tear.

They made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote on it an inscription, like the engraving of a signet, “Holy to the Lord.”

And all its fat he shall burn on the altar, like the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings. So the priest shall make atonement for him for his sin, and he shall be forgiven.

It shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it as their portion of my food offerings. It is a thing most holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering.

It shall be made with oil on a griddle. You shall bring it well mixed, in baked pieces like a grain offering, and offer it for a pleasing aroma to the Lord.

The guilt offering is just like the sin offering; there is one law for them. The priest who makes atonement with it shall have it.

Then he presented the people's offering and took the goat of the sin offering that was for the people and killed it and offered it as a sin offering, like the first one.

Then the priest shall examine him, and if the diseased swelling is reddish-white on his bald head or on his bald forehead, like the appearance of leprous disease in the skin of the body,

And he shall kill the lamb in the place where they kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the place of the sanctuary. For the guilt offering, like the sin offering, belongs to the priest; it is most holy.

and I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze.

And those of you who are left shall rot away in your enemies' lands because of their iniquity, and also because of the iniquities of their fathers they shall rot away like them.

But the field, when it is released in the jubilee, shall be a holy gift to the Lord, like a field that has been devoted. The priest shall be in possession of it.

The Cloud Covering the Tabernacle

On the day that the tabernacle was set up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, the tent of the testimony. And at evening it was over the tabernacle like the appearance of fire until morning.

Now the manna was like coriander seed, and its appearance like that of bdellium.

The people went about and gathered it and ground it in handmills or beat it in mortars and boiled it in pots and made cakes of it. And the taste of it was like the taste of cakes baked with oil.

If you will treat me like this, kill me at once, if I find favor in your sight, that I may not see my wretchedness.”

When the cloud removed from over the tent, behold, Miriam was leprous, like snow. And Aaron turned toward Miriam, and behold, she was leprous.

And there we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim), and we seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them.”

Of the first of your dough you shall present a loaf as a contribution; like a contribution from the threshing floor, so shall you present it.

to be a reminder to the people of Israel, so that no outsider, who is not of the descendants of Aaron, should draw near to burn incense before the Lord, lest he become like Korah and his company—as the Lord said to him through Moses.

Who can count the dust of Jacob or number the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the upright, and let my end be like his!”

God brings them out of Egypt and is for them like the horns of the wild ox.

Like palm groves that stretch afar, like gardens beside a river, like aloes that the Lord has planted, like cedar trees beside the waters.

God brings him out of Egypt and is for him like the horns of the wild ox; he shall eat up the nations, his adversaries, and shall break their bones in pieces and pierce them through with his arrows.

He crouched, he lay down like a lion and like a lioness; who will rouse him up? Blessed are those who bless you, and cursed are those who curse you.”

The other lamb you shall offer at twilight. Like the grain offering of the morning, and like its drink offering, you shall offer it as a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the Lord.

Like the Anakim they are also counted as Rephaim, but the Moabites call them Emim.

beware lest you act corruptly by making a carved image for yourselves, in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the air,

the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth.

“‘You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

And you shall not bring an abominable thing into your house and become devoted to destruction like it. You shall utterly detest and abhor it, for it is devoted to destruction.

Like the nations that the Lord makes to perish before you, so shall you perish, because you would not obey the voice of the Lord your God.

New Tablets of Stone

“At that time the Lord said to me, ‘Cut for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and come up to me on the mountain and make an ark of wood.

So I made an ark of acacia wood, and cut two tablets of stone like the first, and went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hand.

For the land that you are entering to take possession of it is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and irrigated it, like a garden of vegetables.

Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out on the earth like water.

You shall not eat it; you shall pour it out on the earth like water.

Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it out on the ground like water.

Laws Concerning Israel's Kings

“When you come to the land that the Lord your God is giving you, and you possess it and dwell in it and then say, ‘I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me,’

and ministers in the name of the Lord his God, like all his fellow Levites who stand to minister there before the Lord,

A New Prophet like Moses

“The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers—it is to him you shall listen—

I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. And I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him.

And the officers shall speak further to the people, and say, ‘Is there any man who is fearful and fainthearted? Let him go back to his house, lest he make the heart of his fellows melt like his own.’

But you shall do nothing to the young woman; she has committed no offense punishable by death. For this case is like that of a man attacking and murdering his neighbor,

The Lord will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, swooping down like the eagle, a nation whose language you do not understand,

the whole land burned out with brimstone and salt, nothing sown and nothing growing, where no plant can sprout, an overthrow like that of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger and wrath—

May my teaching drop as the rain, my speech distill as the dew, like gentle rain upon the tender grass, and like showers upon the herb.

Like an eagle that stirs up its nest, that flutters over its young, spreading out its wings, catching them, bearing them on its pinions,

And of Gad he said, “Blessed be he who enlarges Gad! Gad crouches like a lion; he tears off arm and scalp.

“There is none like God, O Jeshurun, who rides through the heavens to your help, through the skies in his majesty.

Happy are you, O Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the Lord, the shield of your help, and the sword of your triumph! Your enemies shall come fawning to you, and you shall tread upon their backs.”

And there has not arisen a prophet since in Israel like Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face,

none like him for all the signs and the wonders that the Lord sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land,

he feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, like one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all its men were warriors.

There has been no day like it before or since, when the Lord heeded the voice of a man, for the Lord fought for Israel.

And they came out with all their troops, a great horde, in number like the sand that is on the seashore, with very many horses and chariots.

And Judah said to Simeon his brother, “Come up with me into the territory allotted to me, that we may fight against the Canaanites. And I likewise will go with you into the territory allotted to you.” So Simeon went with him.

“So may all your enemies perish, O Lord! But your friends be like the sun as he rises in his might.” And the land had rest for forty years.

For they would come up with their livestock and their tents; they would come like locusts in number—both they and their camels could not be counted—so that they laid waste the land as they came in.

So he brought the people down to the water. And the Lord said to Gideon, “Every one who laps the water with his tongue, as a dog laps, you shall set by himself. Likewise, every one who kneels down to drink.”

And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the people of the East lay along the valley like locusts in abundance, and their camels were without number, as the sand that is on the seashore in abundance.

And he said to them, “Look at me, and do likewise. When I come to the outskirts of the camp, do as I do.

Then the woman came and told her husband, “A man of God came to me, and his appearance was like the appearance of the angel of God, very awesome. I did not ask him where he was from, and he did not tell me his name,

Samson said to her, “If they bind me with seven fresh bowstrings that have not been dried, then I shall become weak and be like any other man.”

And he said to her, “If they bind me with new ropes that have not been used, then I shall become weak and be like any other man.”

So Delilah took new ropes and bound him with them and said to him, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” And the men lying in ambush were in an inner chamber. But he snapped the ropes off his arms like a thread.

Then Delilah said to Samson, “Until now you have mocked me and told me lies. Tell me how you might be bound.” And he said to her, “If you weave the seven locks of my head with the web and fasten it tight with the pin, then I shall become weak and be like any other man.”

And he told her all his heart, and said to her, “A razor has never come upon my head, for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother's womb. If my head is shaved, then my strength will leave me, and I shall become weak and be like any other man.”

And the Levite was content to dwell with the man, and the young man became to him like one of his sons.

Then all the people who were at the gate and the elders said, “We are witnesses. May the Lord make the woman, who is coming into your house, like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the house of Israel. May you act worthily in Ephrathah and be renowned in Bethlehem,

and may your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, because of the offspring that the Lord will give you by this young woman.”

“There is none holy like the Lord: for there is none besides you; there is no rock like our God.

the Philistines were afraid, for they said, “A god has come into the camp.” And they said, “Woe to us! For nothing like this has happened before.

and said to him, “Behold, you are old and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint for us a king to judge us like all the nations.”

that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us and go out before us and fight our battles.”

And Samuel said to all the people, “Do you see him whom the Lord has chosen? There is none like him among all the people.” And all the people shouted, “Long live the king!”

And the Philistines mustered to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots and six thousand horsemen and troops like the sand on the seashore in multitude. They came up and encamped in Michmash, to the east of Beth-aven.

Likewise, when all the men of Israel who had hidden themselves in the hill country of Ephraim heard that the Philistines were fleeing, they too followed hard after them in the battle.

The shaft of his spear was like a weaver's beam, and his spear's head weighed six hundred shekels of iron. And his shield-bearer went before him.

Your servant has struck down both lions and bears, and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be like one of them, for he has defied the armies of the living God.”

And the priest said, “The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you struck down in the Valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you will take that, take it, for there is none but that here.” And David said, “There is none like that; give it to me.”

And Abigail came to Nabal, and behold, he was holding a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. And Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk. So she told him nothing at all until the morning light.

And David said to Abner, “Are you not a man? Who is like you in Israel? Why then have you not kept watch over your lord the king? For one of the people came in to destroy the king your lord.

Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of the Lord, for the king of Israel has come out to seek a single flea like one who hunts a partridge in the mountains.”

And David came to Baal-perazim, and David defeated them there. And he said, “The Lord has broken through my enemies before me like a breaking flood.” Therefore the name of that place is called Baal-perazim.

And I have been with you wherever you went and have cut off all your enemies from before you. And I will make for you a great name, like the name of the great ones of the earth.

Therefore you are great, O Lord God. For there is none like you, and there is no God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

And who is like your people Israel, the one nation on earth whom God went to redeem to be his people, making himself a name and doing for them great and awesome things by driving out before your people, whom you redeemed for yourself from Egypt, a nation and its gods?

Then Ziba said to the king, “According to all that my lord the king commands his servant, so will your servant do.” So Mephibosheth ate at David's table, like one of the king's sons.

And when the Ammonites saw that the Syrians fled, they likewise fled before Abishai and entered the city. Then Joab returned from fighting against the Ammonites and came to Jerusalem.

but the poor man had nothing but one little ewe lamb, which he had bought. And he brought it up, and it grew up with him and with his children. It used to eat of his morsel and drink from his cup and lie in his arms, and it was like a daughter to him.

And Joab sent to Tekoa and brought from there a wise woman and said to her, “Pretend to be a mourner and put on mourning garments. Do not anoint yourself with oil, but behave like a woman who has been mourning many days for the dead.

We must all die; we are like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. But God will not take away life, and he devises means so that the banished one will not remain an outcast.

And your servant thought, ‘The word of my lord the king will set me at rest,’ for my lord the king is like the angel of God to discern good and evil. The Lord your God be with you!”

In order to change the course of things your servant Joab did this. But my lord has wisdom like the wisdom of the angel of God to know all things that are on the earth.”

Hushai said, “You know that your father and his men are mighty men, and that they are enraged, like a bear robbed of her cubs in the field. Besides, your father is expert in war; he will not spend the night with the people.

Then even the valiant man, whose heart is like the heart of a lion, will utterly melt with fear, for all Israel knows that your father is a mighty man, and that those who are with him are valiant men.

Joab said, “I will not waste time like this with you.” And he took three javelins in his hand and thrust them into the heart of Absalom while he was still alive in the oak.

The watchman said, “I think the running of the first is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok.” And the king said, “He is a good man and comes with good news.”

The king said to the Cushite, “Is it well with the young man Absalom?” And the Cushite answered, “May the enemies of my lord the king and all who rise up against you for evil be like that young man.”

He has slandered your servant to my lord the king. But my lord the king is like the angel of God; do therefore what seems good to you.

And there was again war with the Philistines at Gob, and Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim, the Bethlehemite, struck down Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.

He made my feet like the feet of a deer and set me secure on the heights.

I beat them fine as the dust of the earth; I crushed them and stamped them down like the mire of the streets.

he dawns on them like the morning light, like the sun shining forth on a cloudless morning, like rain that makes grass to sprout from the earth.

But worthless men are all like thorns that are thrown away, for they cannot be taken with the hand;

behold, I now do according to your word. Behold, I give you a wise and discerning mind, so that none like you has been before you and none like you shall arise after you.

And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding beyond measure, and breadth of mind like the sand on the seashore,

Now therefore command that cedars of Lebanon be cut for me. And my servants will join your servants, and I will pay you for your servants such wages as you set, for you know that there is no one among us who knows how to cut timber like the Sidonians.”

His own house where he was to dwell, in the other court back of the hall, was of like workmanship. Solomon also made a house like this hall for Pharaoh's daughter whom he had taken in marriage.

Likewise he made pomegranates in two rows around the one latticework to cover the capital that was on the top of the pillar, and he did the same with the other capital.

Its thickness was a handbreadth, and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily. It held two thousand baths.

The wheels were made like a chariot wheel; their axles, their rims, their spokes, and their hubs were all cast.

and said, “O Lord, God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven above or on earth beneath, keeping covenant and showing steadfast love to your servants who walk before you with all their heart;

“Likewise, when a foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, comes from a far country for your name's sake

while twelve lions stood there, one on each end of a step on the six steps. The like of it was never made in any kingdom.

And Jeroboam appointed a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month like the feast that was in Judah, and he offered sacrifices on the altar. So he did in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he made. And he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places that he had made.

and tore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you, and yet you have not been like my servant David, who kept my commandments and followed me with all his heart, doing only that which was right in my eyes,

behold, I will utterly sweep away Baasha and his house, and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

Moreover, the word of the Lord came by the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha and his house, both because of all the evil that he did in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam, and also because he destroyed it.

And at the seventh time he said, “Behold, a little cloud like a man's hand is rising from the sea.” And he said, “Go up, say to Ahab, ‘Prepare your chariot and go down, lest the rain stop you.’”

and muster an army like the army that you have lost, horse for horse, and chariot for chariot. Then we will fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they.” And he listened to their voice and did so.

And the people of Israel were mustered and were provisioned and went against them. The people of Israel encamped before them like two little flocks of goats, but the Syrians filled the country.

And I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the anger to which you have provoked me, and because you have made Israel to sin.

Ahab's Repentance

(There was none who sold himself to do what was evil in the sight of the Lord like Ahab, whom Jezebel his wife incited.

Micaiah Prophesies Against Ahab

And the messenger who went to summon Micaiah said to him, “Behold, the words of the prophets with one accord are favorable to the king. Let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak favorably.”

He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, though not like his father and mother, for he put away the pillar of Baal that his father had made.

So he went down and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the word of the man of God, and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.

Therefore the leprosy of Naaman shall cling to you and to your descendants forever.” So he went out from his presence a leper, like snow.

And one of his servants said, “Let some men take five of the remaining horses, seeing that those who are left here will fare like the whole multitude of Israel who have already perished. Let us send and see.”

And I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah.

Again the watchman reported, “He reached them, but he is not coming back. And the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi, for he drives furiously.”

For there was not left to Jehoahaz an army of more than fifty horsemen and ten chariots and ten thousand footmen, for the king of Syria had destroyed them and made them like the dust at threshing.

And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, yet not like David his father. He did in all things as Joash his father had done.

They despised his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers and the warnings that he gave them. They went after false idols and became false, and they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the Lord had commanded them that they should not do like them.

So these nations feared the Lord and also served their carved images. Their children did likewise, and their children's children—as their fathers did, so they do to this day.

He trusted in the Lord, the God of Israel, so that there was none like him among all the kings of Judah after him, nor among those who were before him.

until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey, that you may live, and not die. And do not listen to Hezekiah when he misleads you by saying, “The Lord will deliver us.”

while their inhabitants, shorn of strength, are dismayed and confounded, and have become like plants of the field and like tender grass, like grass on the housetops, blighted before it is grown.

Before him there was no king like him, who turned to the Lord with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his might, according to all the Law of Moses, nor did any like him arise after him.

Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brothers did not have many children, nor did all their clan multiply like the men of Judah.

And he struck down an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits tall. The Egyptian had in his hand a spear like a weaver's beam, but Benaiah went down to him with a staff and snatched the spear out of the Egyptian's hand and killed him with his own spear.

From the Gadites there went over to David at the stronghold in the wilderness mighty and experienced warriors, expert with shield and spear, whose faces were like the faces of lions and who were swift as gazelles upon the mountains:

For from day to day men came to David to help him, until there was a great army, like an army of God.

All these, men of war, arrayed in battle order, came to Hebron with a whole heart to make David king over all Israel. Likewise, all the rest of Israel were of a single mind to make David king.

And he went up to Baal-perazim, and David struck them down there. And David said, “God has broken through my enemies by my hand, like a bursting flood.” Therefore the name of that place is called Baal-perazim.

and I have been with you wherever you have gone and have cut off all your enemies from before you. And I will make for you a name, like the name of the great ones of the earth.

There is none like you, O Lord, and there is no God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

And who is like your people Israel, the one nation on earth whom God went to redeem to be his people, making for yourself a name for great and awesome things, in driving out nations before your people whom you redeemed from Egypt?

And when the Ammonites saw that the Syrians fled, they likewise fled before Abishai, Joab's brother, and entered the city. Then Joab came to Jerusalem.

And there was again war with the Philistines, and Elhanan the son of Jair struck down Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.

And they were to stand every morning, thanking and praising the Lord, and likewise at evening,

For we are strangers before you and sojourners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no abiding.

wisdom and knowledge are granted to you. I will also give you riches, possessions, and honor, such as none of the kings had who were before you, and none after you shall have the like.”

They imported a chariot from Egypt for 600 shekels of silver, and a horse for 150. Likewise through them these were exported to all the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Syria.

He made chains like a necklace and put them on the tops of the pillars, and he made a hundred pomegranates and put them on the chains.

Its thickness was a handbreadth. And its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily. It held 3,000 baths.

and said, “O Lord, God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven or on earth, keeping covenant and showing steadfast love to your servants who walk before you with all their heart,

“Likewise, when a foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, comes from a far country for the sake of your great name and your mighty hand and your outstretched arm, when he comes and prays toward this house,

And the king made from the algum wood supports for the house of the Lord and for the king's house, lyres also and harps for the singers. There never was seen the like of them before in the land of Judah.

while twelve lions stood there, one on each end of a step on the six steps. Nothing like it was ever made for any kingdom.

Have you not driven out the priests of the Lord, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and made priests for yourselves like the peoples of other lands? Whoever comes for ordination with a young bull or seven rams becomes a priest of what are not gods.

And Asa cried to the Lord his God, “O Lord, there is none like you to help, between the mighty and the weak. Help us, O Lord our God, for we rely on you, and in your name we have come against this multitude. O Lord, you are our God; let not man prevail against you.”

And the messenger who went to summon Micaiah said to him, “Behold, the words of the prophets with one accord are favorable to the king. Let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak favorably.”

In the course of time, at the end of two years, his bowels came out because of the disease, and he died in great agony. His people made no fire in his honor, like the fires made for his fathers.

Do not be like your fathers and your brothers, who were faithless to the Lord God of their fathers, so that he made them a desolation, as you see.

So there was great joy in Jerusalem, for since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there had been nothing like this in Jerusalem.

And he wrote letters to cast contempt on the Lord, the God of Israel, and to speak against him, saying, “Like the gods of the nations of the lands who have not delivered their people from my hands, so the God of Hezekiah will not deliver his people from my hand.”

He likewise provided cities for himself, and flocks and herds in abundance, for God had given him very great possessions.

No Passover like it had been kept in Israel since the days of Samuel the prophet. None of the kings of Israel had kept such a Passover as was kept by Josiah, and the priests and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel who were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

All the officers of the priests and the people likewise were exceedingly unfaithful, following all the abominations of the nations. And they polluted the house of the Lord that he had made holy in Jerusalem.

We, the priests, the Levites, and the people, have likewise cast lots for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, according to our fathers' houses, at times appointed, year by year, to burn on the altar of the Lord our God, as it is written in the Law.

Did not Solomon king of Israel sin on account of such women? Among the many nations there was no king like him, and he was beloved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless, foreign women made even him to sin.

And the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil?”

And the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil? He still holds fast his integrity, although you incited me against him to destroy him without reason.”

For my sighing comes instead of my bread, and my groanings are poured out like water.

how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like the moth.

You shall come to your grave in ripe old age, like a sheaf gathered up in its season.

Job Continues: My Life Has No Hope

“Has not man a hard service on earth, and are not his days like the days of a hired hand?

Like a slave who longs for the shadow, and like a hired hand who looks for his wages,

They go by like skiffs of reed, like an eagle swooping on the prey.

Remember that you have made me like clay; and will you return me to the dust?

Did you not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese?

And were my head lifted up, you would hunt me like a lion and again work wonders against me.

the land of gloom like thick darkness, like deep shadow without any order, where light is as thick darkness.”

And your life will be brighter than the noonday; its darkness will be like the morning.

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

Man wastes away like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

He comes out like a flower and withers; he flees like a shadow and continues not.

look away from him and leave him alone, that he may enjoy, like a hired hand, his day.

yet at the scent of water it will bud and put out branches like a young plant.

how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks injustice like water!

distress and anguish terrify him; they prevail against him, like a king ready for battle.

He will shake off his unripe grape like the vine, and cast off his blossom like the olive tree.

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

My eye has grown dim from vexation, and all my members are like a shadow.

He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone, and my hope has he pulled up like a tree.

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

he will perish forever like his own dung; those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’

He will fly away like a dream and not be found; he will be chased away like a vision of the night.

They send out their little boys like a flock, and their children dance.

That they are like straw before the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries away?

Behold, like wild donkeys in the desert the poor go out to their toil, seeking game; the wasteland yields food for their children.

The murderer rises before it is light, that he may kill the poor and needy, and in the night he is like a thief.

The womb forgets them; the worm finds them sweet; they are no longer remembered, so wickedness is broken like a tree.’

They are exalted a little while, and then are gone; they are brought low and gathered up like all others; they are cut off like the heads of grain.

Though he heap up silver like dust, and pile up clothing like clay,

He builds his house like a moth's, like a booth that a watchman makes.

Terrors overtake him like a flood; in the night a whirlwind carries him off.

I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was like a robe and a turban.

I chose their way and sat as chief, and I lived like a king among his troops, like one who comforts mourners.

Terrors are turned upon me; my honor is pursued as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed away like a cloud.

With great force my garment is disfigured; it binds me about like the collar of my tunic.

God has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.

I would give him an account of all my steps; like a prince I would approach him.

Behold, my belly is like wine that has no vent; like new wineskins ready to burst.

What man is like Job, who drinks up scoffing like water,

Would that Job were tried to the end, because he answers like wicked men.

Your wickedness concerns a man like yourself, and your righteousness a son of man.

Behold, God is exalted in his power; who is a teacher like him?

For to the snow he says, ‘Fall on the earth,’ likewise to the downpour, his mighty downpour.

Can you, like him, spread out the skies, hard as a cast metal mirror?

Dress for action like a man; I will question you, and you make it known to me.

It is changed like clay under the seal, and its features stand out like a garment.

The waters become hard like stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.

Do you make him leap like the locust? His majestic snorting is terrifying.

“Dress for action like a man; I will question you, and you make it known to me.

Have you an arm like God, and can you thunder with a voice like his?

“Behold, Behemoth, which I made as I made you; he eats grass like an ox.

He makes his tail stiff like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are knit together.

His bones are tubes of bronze, his limbs like bars of iron.

His sneezings flash forth light, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the dawn.

His underparts are like sharp potsherds; he spreads himself like a threshing sledge on the mire.

He makes the deep boil like a pot; he makes the sea like a pot of ointment.

On earth there is not his like, a creature without fear.

He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.

The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away.

You shall break them with a rod of iron and dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.”

lest like a lion they tear my soul apart, rending it in pieces, with none to deliver.

he lurks in ambush like a lion in his thicket; he lurks that he may seize the poor; he seizes the poor when he draws him into his net.

The Lord Is in His Holy Temple

To the choirmaster. Of David.

In the Lord I take refuge; how can you say to my soul, “Flee like a bird to your mountain,

The words of the Lord are pure words, like silver refined in a furnace on the ground, purified seven times.

He is like a lion eager to tear, as a young lion lurking in ambush.

As for me, I shall behold your face in righteousness; when I awake, I shall be satisfied with your likeness.

He made my feet like the feet of a deer and set me secure on the heights.

I beat them fine as dust before the wind; I cast them out like the mire of the streets.

which comes out like a bridegroom leaving his chamber, and, like a strong man, runs its course with joy.

they open wide their mouths at me, like a ravening and roaring lion.

I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint; my heart is like wax; it is melted within my breast;

my strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to my jaws; you lay me in the dust of death.

The Lord Is My Strength and My Shield

Of David.

To you, O Lord, I call; my rock, be not deaf to me, lest, if you be silent to me, I become like those who go down to the pit.

He makes Lebanon to skip like a calf, and Sirion like a young wild ox.

I have been forgotten like one who is dead; I have become like a broken vessel.

Be not like a horse or a mule, without understanding, which must be curbed with bit and bridle, or it will not stay near you.

Let them be like chaff before the wind, with the angel of the Lord driving them away!

All my bones shall say, “O Lord, who is like you, delivering the poor from him who is too strong for him, the poor and needy from him who robs him?”

like profane mockers at a feast, they gnash at me with their teeth.

Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; your judgments are like the great deep; man and beast you save, O Lord.

For they will soon fade like the grass and wither like the green herb.

But the wicked will perish; the enemies of the Lord are like the glory of the pastures; they vanish—like smoke they vanish away.

I have seen a wicked, ruthless man, spreading himself like a green laurel tree.

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

But I am like a deaf man; I do not hear, like a mute man who does not open his mouth.

I have become like a man who does not hear, and in whose mouth are no rebukes.

When you discipline a man with rebukes for sin, you consume like a moth what is dear to him; surely all mankind is a mere breath! Selah

“Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my cry; hold not your peace at my tears! For I am a sojourner with you, a guest, like all my fathers.

You have made us like sheep for slaughter and have scattered us among the nations.

Your Throne, O God, Is Forever

To the choirmaster: according to Lilies. A Maskil of the Sons of Korah; a love song.

My heart overflows with a pleasing theme; I address my verses to the king; my tongue is like the pen of a ready scribe.

Man in his pomp will not remain; he is like the beasts that perish.

Like sheep they are appointed for Sheol; death shall be their shepherd, and the upright shall rule over them in the morning. Their form shall be consumed in Sheol, with no place to dwell.

Man in his pomp yet without understanding is like the beasts that perish.

These things you have done, and I have been silent; you thought that I was one like yourself. But now I rebuke you and lay the charge before you.

Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, you worker of deceit.

But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God. I trust in the steadfast love of God forever and ever.

And I say, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and be at rest;

They have venom like the venom of a serpent, like the deaf adder that stops its ear,

Let them vanish like water that runs away; when he aims his arrows, let them be blunted.

Let them be like the snail that dissolves into slime, like the stillborn child who never sees the sun.

Each evening they come back, howling like dogs and prowling about the city.

Each evening they come back, howling like dogs and prowling about the city.

How long will all of you attack a man to batter him, like a leaning wall, a tottering fence?

who whet their tongues like swords, who aim bitter words like arrows,

Your righteousness, O God, reaches the high heavens. You who have done great things, O God, who is like you?

May he be like rain that falls on the mown grass, like showers that water the earth!

May there be abundance of grain in the land; on the tops of the mountains may it wave; may its fruit be like Lebanon; and may people blossom in the cities like the grass of the field!

They are not in trouble as others are; they are not stricken like the rest of mankind.

Like a dream when one awakes, O Lord, when you rouse yourself, you despise them as phantoms.

I was brutish and ignorant; I was like a beast toward you.

They were like those who swing axes in a forest of trees.

Surely the wrath of man shall praise you; the remnant of wrath you will put on like a belt.

Your way, O God, is holy. What god is great like our God?

You led your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

and that they should not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not steadfast, whose spirit was not faithful to God.

He divided the sea and let them pass through it, and made the waters stand like a heap.

He made streams come out of the rock and caused waters to flow down like rivers.

he rained meat on them like dust, winged birds like the sand of the seas;

So he made their days vanish like a breath, and their years in terror.

Then he led out his people like sheep and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

but turned away and acted treacherously like their fathers; they twisted like a deceitful bow.

Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a strong man shouting because of wine.

He built his sanctuary like the high heavens, like the earth, which he has founded forever.

They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there was no one to bury them.

How long, O Lord? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?

Restore Us, O God

To the choirmaster: according to Lilies. A Testimony. Of Asaph, a Psalm.

Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock. You who are enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth.

nevertheless, like men you shall die, and fall like any prince.”

Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,

O my God, make them like whirling dust, like chaff before the wind.

There is none like you among the gods, O Lord, nor are there any works like yours.

like one set loose among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, like those whom you remember no more, for they are cut off from your hand.

They surround me like a flood all day long; they close in on me together.

For who in the skies can be compared to the Lord? Who among the heavenly beings is like the Lord,

You crushed Rahab like a carcass; you scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.

Like the moon it shall be established forever, a faithful witness in the skies.” Selah

How long, O Lord? Will you hide yourself forever? How long will your wrath burn like fire?

You sweep them away as with a flood; they are like a dream, like grass that is renewed in the morning:

For all our days pass away under your wrath; we bring our years to an end like a sigh.

that though the wicked sprout like grass and all evildoers flourish, they are doomed to destruction forever;

But you have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox; you have poured over me fresh oil.

The righteous flourish like the palm tree and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

The mountains melt like wax before the Lord, before the Lord of all the earth.

For my days pass away like smoke, and my bones burn like a furnace.

My heart is struck down like grass and has withered; I forget to eat my bread.

I am like a desert owl of the wilderness, like an owl of the waste places;

I lie awake; I am like a lonely sparrow on the housetop.

For I eat ashes like bread and mingle tears with my drink,

My days are like an evening shadow; I wither away like grass.

They will perish, but you will remain; they will all wear out like a garment. You will change them like a robe, and they will pass away,

who satisfies you with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's.

As for man, his days are like grass; he flourishes like a flower of the field;

covering yourself with light as with a garment, stretching out the heavens like a tent.

He opened the rock, and water gushed out; it flowed through the desert like a river.

they reeled and staggered like drunken men and were at their wits' end.

but he raises up the needy out of affliction and makes their families like flocks.

He clothed himself with cursing as his coat; may it soak into his body like water, like oil into his bones!

May it be like a garment that he wraps around him, like a belt that he puts on every day!

I am gone like a shadow at evening; I am shaken off like a locust.

Who Is like the Lord Our God?

Praise the Lord! Praise, O servants of the Lord, praise the name of the Lord!

Who is like the Lord our God, who is seated on high,

The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.

O mountains, that you skip like rams? O hills, like lambs?

Those who make them become like them; so do all who trust in them.

They surrounded me like bees; they went out like a fire among thorns; in the name of the Lord I cut them off!

their heart is unfeeling like fat, but I delight in your law.

For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke, yet I have not forgotten your statutes.

All the wicked of the earth you discard like dross, therefore I love your testimonies.

I rejoice at your word like one who finds great spoil.

I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek your servant, for I do not forget your commandments.

We have escaped like a bird from the snare of the fowlers; the snare is broken, and we have escaped!

The Lord Surrounds His People

A Song of Ascents.

Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but abides forever.

Restore Our Fortunes, O Lord

A Song of Ascents.

When the Lord restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dream.

Restore our fortunes, O Lord, like streams in the Negeb!

Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one's youth.

Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table.

Let them be like the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up,

But I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother; like a weaned child is my soul within me.

It is like the precious oil on the head, running down on the beard, on the beard of Aaron, running down on the collar of his robes!

It is like the dew of Hermon, which falls on the mountains of Zion! For there the Lord has commanded the blessing, life forevermore.

Those who make them become like them, so do all who trust in them.

For the enemy has pursued my soul; he has crushed my life to the ground; he has made me sit in darkness like those long dead.

I stretch out my hands to you; my soul thirsts for you like a parched land. Selah

Answer me quickly, O Lord! My spirit fails! Hide not your face from me, lest I be like those who go down to the pit.

Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

May our sons in their youth be like plants full grown, our daughters like corner pillars cut for the structure of a palace;

He gives snow like wool; he scatters frost like ashes.

He hurls down his crystals of ice like crumbs; who can stand before his cold?

like Sheol let us swallow them alive, and whole, like those who go down to the pit;

when terror strikes you like a storm and your calamity comes like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you.

if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures,

But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day.

The way of the wicked is like deep darkness; they do not know over what they stumble.

save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the hand of the fowler.

and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like an armed man.

then I was beside him, like a master workman, and I was daily his delight, rejoicing before him always,

Doing wrong is like a joke to a fool, but wisdom is pleasure to a man of understanding.

Like vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to those who send him.

Like a gold ring in a pig's snout is a beautiful woman without discretion.

Whoever trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous will flourish like a green leaf.

An excellent wife is the crown of her husband, but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones.

There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

A scoffer does not like to be reproved; he will not go to the wise.

The way of a sluggard is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is a level highway.

In the light of a king's face there is life, and his favor is like the clouds that bring the spring rain.

Gracious words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body.

A worthless man plots evil, and his speech is like a scorching fire.

A bribe is like a magic stone in the eyes of the one who gives it; wherever he turns he prospers.

The beginning of strife is like letting out water, so quit before the quarrel breaks out.

The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels; they go down into the inner parts of the body.

A rich man's wealth is his strong city, and like a high wall in his imagination.

A brother offended is more unyielding than a strong city, and quarreling is like the bars of a castle.

A king's wrath is like the growling of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.

The terror of a king is like the growling of a lion; whoever provokes him to anger forfeits his life.

The purpose in a man's heart is like deep water, but a man of understanding will draw it out.

When your eyes light on it, it is gone, for suddenly it sprouts wings, flying like an eagle toward heaven.

for he is like one who is inwardly calculating. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

She lies in wait like a robber and increases the traitors among mankind.

In the end it bites like a serpent and stings like an adder.

You will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea, like one who lies on the top of a mast.

and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like an armed man.

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in a setting of silver.

Like a gold ring or an ornament of gold is a wise reprover to a listening ear.

Like the cold of snow in the time of harvest is a faithful messenger to those who send him; he refreshes the soul of his masters.

Like clouds and wind without rain is a man who boasts of a gift he does not give.

A man who bears false witness against his neighbor is like a war club, or a sword, or a sharp arrow.

Trusting in a treacherous man in time of trouble is like a bad tooth or a foot that slips.

Whoever sings songs to a heavy heart is like one who takes off a garment on a cold day, and like vinegar on soda.

Like cold water to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.

Like a muddied spring or a polluted fountain is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.

A man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls.

Like snow in summer or rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool.

Like a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying, a curse that is causeless does not alight.

Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest you be like him yourself.

Like a lame man's legs, which hang useless, is a proverb in the mouth of fools.

Like one who binds the stone in the sling is one who gives honor to a fool.

Like a thorn that goes up into the hand of a drunkard is a proverb in the mouth of fools.

Like an archer who wounds everyone is one who hires a passing fool or drunkard.

Like a dog that returns to his vomit is a fool who repeats his folly.

Whoever meddles in a quarrel not his own is like one who takes a passing dog by the ears.

Like a madman who throws firebrands, arrows, and death

The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels; they go down into the inner parts of the body.

Like the glaze covering an earthen vessel are fervent lips with an evil heart.

Like a bird that strays from its nest is a man who strays from his home.

Like a roaring lion or a charging bear is a wicked ruler over a poor people.

She is like the ships of the merchant; she brings her food from afar.

For of the wise as of the fool there is no enduring remembrance, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. How the wise dies just like the fool!

For who knows what is good for man while he lives the few days of his vain life, which he passes like a shadow? For who can tell man what will be after him under the sun?

For the protection of wisdom is like the protection of money, and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.

Keep the King's Command

Who is like the wise? And 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 be well with the wicked, neither will he prolong his days like a shadow, because he does not fear before God.

For man does not know his time. Like fish that are taken in an evil net, and like birds that are caught in a snare, so the children of man are snared at an evil time, when it suddenly falls upon them.

I have seen slaves on horses, and princes walking on the ground like slaves.

The words of the wise are like goads, and like nails firmly fixed are the collected sayings; they are given by one Shepherd.

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I am very dark, but lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.

Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you pasture your flock, where you make it lie down at noon; for why should I be like one who veils herself beside the flocks of your companions?

My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Behold, there he stands behind our wall, gazing through the windows, looking through the lattice.

Until the day breathes and the shadows flee, turn, my beloved, be like a gazelle or a young stag on cleft mountains.