1,685 verses contain “like” (in the KJV: 909, in the BSB: 1,292) — showing 401–500
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Behold, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him?
Behold, God is
exalted in His power. Who is a teacher
like Him?
For he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength.
For He says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth,’ and to the gentle rain, ‘Pour out a mighty
downpour.’
Hast thou with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as a
molten looking glass?
can you,
like Him, spread out the
skies to
reflect the heat
like a mirror of bronze?
Gird up now thy loins
like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.
Now
brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall inform Me.
It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment.
The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its hills stand out like the folds of a garment.
Canst thou make him afraid as a
grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils is terrible.
Gird up thy loins now
like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
“Now
brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall inform Me.
Hast thou an arm
like God? or canst thou
thunder with a voice
like him?
Do you have an arm
like God’s? Can you
thunder with a voice
like His?
Behold now
behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.
Look at
Behemoth, which I made along with you. He feeds on grass
like an ox.
He moveth his tail
like a
cedar: the sinews of his stones are
wrapped together.
His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.
His bones are tubes of bronze; his limbs are rods of iron.
Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or
wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?
Can you
pet him
like a bird or put him on a
leash for your maidens?
By his neesings a light
doth shine, and his eyes are
like the eyelids of the morning.
Sharp stones are under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the
mire.
He maketh the deep to
boil like a pot: he maketh the sea
like a pot of
ointment.
Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear.
Nothing on earth is his equal— a creature devoid of fear!
Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for
yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right,
like my servant Job.
So now, take seven bulls and seven rams, go to My servant Job, and sacrifice a burnt offering for
yourselves. Then My servant Job will pray for you, for I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken accurately about Me, as My servant Job has.”
And he shall be
like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and
whatsoever he doeth shall
prosper.
He is like a tree planted by streams of water, yielding its fruit in season, whose leaf does not wither, and who prospers in all he does.
The ungodly are not so: but are
like the
chaff which the wind driveth away.
Not so the wicked! For they are
like chaff driven off by the wind.
Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt
dash them in pieces
like a
potter’s vessel.
You will break them with an iron
scepter; You will
shatter them
like pottery.”
Lest he
tear my soul
like a lion,
rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
or they will
shred my soul
like a lion and
tear me to pieces with no one to
rescue me.
He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he
doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.
He lies in wait
like a lion in a
thicket; he lurks to seize the
oppressed; he catches the lowly in his net.
In the LORD put I my trust: How say ye to my soul,
Flee as a bird to your mountain?
In the LORD I take refuge. How then can you say to me: “
Flee like a bird to your mountain!
The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth,
purified seven times.
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
Will the workers of iniquity never learn? They
devour my people
like bread; they refuse to call upon the LORD.
Like as a lion that is
greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion
lurking in secret places.
As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I
awake, with thy
likeness.
As for me, I will behold Your face in righteousness; when I
awake, I will be satisfied in Your presence.
He maketh my feet like hinds’ feet, and setteth me upon my high places.
He makes my feet like those of a deer and stations me upon the heights.
Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the
dirt in the streets.
I ground them as dust in the face of the wind; I
trampled them
like mud in the streets.
Which is as a
bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.
They open their jaws against me
like lions that
roar and
maul.
I am poured out
like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is
like wax; it is melted in the midst of my
bowels.
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed. My heart is like wax; it melts away within me.
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.
My strength is dried up
like a
potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You lay me in the dust of death.
Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
To You, O LORD, I call; be not
deaf to me, O my Rock. For if You remain silent, I will be
like those descending to the Pit.
I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind. I am like a broken vessel.
Be ye not as the horse, or as the
mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with
bit and
bridle, lest they come near unto thee.
Do not be
like the horse or
mule, which have no understanding; they must be
controlled with
bit and
bridle to make them come to you.
Let them be as
chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD
chase them.
May they be
like chaff in the wind, as the angel of the LORD drives them away.
All my bones shall say, LORD, who is
like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him,
yea, the poor and the
needy from him that spoileth him?
I
behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down
heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.
I
paced about as for my friend or brother; I was bowed down with grief,
like one
mourning for his mother.
Like godless jesters at a feast, they
gnashed their teeth at me.
Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.
Your righteousness is like the highest mountains; Your judgments are like the deepest sea. O LORD, You preserve man and beast.
For they shall soon be cut down
like the grass, and wither as the green
herb.
For they wither quickly
like grass and
wilt like tender plants.
And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the
noonday.
He will bring forth your righteousness
like the
dawn, your justice
like the
noonday sun.
But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall
consume; into smoke shall they
consume away.
But the wicked and enemies of the LORD will perish
like the glory of the fields. They will
vanish;
like smoke they will
fade away.
I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.
I have seen a wicked,
ruthless man flourishing
like a well-rooted native tree,
But I, as a
deaf man, heard not; and I was as a
dumb man that openeth not his mouth.
But
like a
deaf man, I do not hear; and
like a
mute man, I do not open my mouth.
Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.
I am like a man who cannot hear, whose mouth offers no reply.
Surely every man walketh in a vain
shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
Surely every man goes about
like a
phantom; surely he bustles in vain; he heaps up riches not knowing who will
haul them away.
When thou with rebukes
dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to
consume away
like a
moth: surely every man is vanity.
Selah.
Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a
sojourner, as all my fathers were.
Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry for help; do not be
deaf to my
weeping. For I am a foreigner dwelling with You, a stranger
like all my fathers.
As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?
Like the
crushing of my bones, my enemies
taunt me, while they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”
Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.
You have given us up as sheep to be
devoured; You have scattered us among the nations.
Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount
Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.
Beautiful in
loftiness, the joy of all the earth,
like the peaks of Zaphon is Mount
Zion, the city of the great King.
Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in
travail.
According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness.
Your name, O God, like Your praise, reaches to the ends of the earth; Your right hand is full of righteousness.
For he
seeth that wise men die,
likewise the
fool and the
brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.
For it is clear that wise men die, and the
foolish and the senseless both perish and leave their wealth to others.
Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish.
But a man,
despite his wealth, cannot
endure; he is
like the beasts that perish.
Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall
consume in the grave from their dwelling.
Like sheep they are destined for
Sheol. Death will be their
shepherd. The upright will rule them in the morning, and their form will decay in
Sheol, far from their lofty abode.
Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish.
A man who has riches without understanding is like the beasts that perish.
These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as
thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.
You have done these things, and I kept silent; you thought I was just
like you. But now I
rebuke you and
accuse you to your face.
Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs;
like a sharp rasor, working
deceitfully.
Your tongue devises destruction
like a sharpened
razor, O worker of
deceit.
God shall
likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and
pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living.
Selah.
Surely God will bring you down to
everlasting ruin; He will
snatch you up and
tear you away from your tent; He will
uproot you from the land of the living.
SelahBut I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.
But I am
like an olive tree flourishing in the house of God; I trust in the loving devotion of God
forever and ever.
Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.
Will the workers of iniquity never learn? They
devour my people
like bread; they refuse to call upon God.
And I said, Oh that I had wings
like a
dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.
I said, “Oh, that I had wings
like a
dove! I would fly away and find rest.
But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance.
But it is you, a man like myself, my companion and close friend.
Their poison is
like the poison of a serpent: they are
like the
deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
Let them
melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
May they
vanish like water that runs off; when they draw the bow, may their arrows be
blunted.
As a
snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away:
like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
Like a
slug that dissolves in its
slime,
like a woman’s
stillborn child, may they never see the sun.
They return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.
And at evening let them return; and let them make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.
How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a
tottering fence.
Who
whet their tongue
like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:
who
sharpen their tongues
like swords and aim their bitter words
like arrows,
For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.
For You, O God, have tested us; You have refined us like silver.
When the
Almighty scattered kings in it, it was white as snow in Salmon.
When the
Almighty scattered the kings in the land, it was
like the snow falling on Zalmon.
Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high, who hast done great things: O God, who is like unto thee!
Your righteousness reaches to the heavens, O God, You who have done great things. Who, O God, is like You?
He shall come down
like rain upon the
mown grass: as showers that water the earth.
May he be like rain that falls on freshly cut grass, like spring showers that water the earth.
There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall
shake like Lebanon: and they of the city shall
flourish like grass of the earth.
May there be an abundance of grain in the land; may it
sway atop the hills. May its fruit trees
flourish like the forests of
Lebanon, and its people
like the grass of the field.
They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men.
They are free of the burdens others carry; they are not
afflicted like other men.
As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt
despise their image.
A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.
Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
You led Your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
And might not be as their fathers, a
stubborn and
rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart
aright, and whose spirit was not
stedfast with God.
Then they will not be
like their fathers, a
stubborn and
rebellious generation, whose heart was not
loyal, whose spirit was not faithful to God.
He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an
heap.
He split the sea and brought them through; He set the waters upright like a wall.
He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.
He brought streams from the stone and made water flow down like rivers.
He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and
feathered fowls
like as the sand of the sea:
He rained meat on them like dust, and winged birds like the sand of the sea.
But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
He led out His people like sheep and guided them like a flock in the wilderness.
But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully
like their fathers: they were turned aside
like a
deceitful bow.
They turned back and were faithless
like their fathers, twisted
like a
faulty bow.
Then the Lord
awaked as one out of sleep, and
like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.
Then the Lord
awoke as from sleep,
like a mighty
warrior overcome by wine.
And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established for ever.
He built His sanctuary
like the heights,
like the earth He has established
forever.
Their blood have they shed
like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to
bury them.
They have poured out their blood
like water all around Jerusalem, and there is no one to
bury the dead.
How long, LORD?
wilt thou be
angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn
like fire?
How long, O LORD? Will You be
angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn
like fire?
Give ear, O
Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph
like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims,
shine forth.
Hear us, O
Shepherd of Israel, who leads Joseph
like a flock; You who sit enthroned between the
cherubim,
shine forth
The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars.
The mountains were covered by its shade, and the mighty cedars with its branches.
But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.
But like mortals you will die, and like rulers you will fall.”
Which perished at
Endor: they became as dung for the earth.
who perished at
Endor and became
like dung on the ground.
Make their nobles
like Oreb, and
like Zeeb:
yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:
Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, and all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,
O my God, make them
like a wheel; as the
stubble before the wind.
