Is it through you that he is shaking like a locust, in the pride of his loud-sounding breath?
See now the Great Beast, whom I made, even as I made you; he takes grass for food, like the ox.
His tail is curving like a cedar; the muscles of his legs are joined together.
His bones are pipes of brass, his legs are like rods of iron.
Get your strength together like a man of war: I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers.
Have you an arm like God? have you a voice of thunder like his?
His back is made of lines of plates, joined tight together, one against the other, like a stamp.
His sneezings give out flames, and his eyes are like the eyes of the dawn.
Smoke comes out of his nose, like a pot boiling on the fire.
The deep is boiling like a pot of spices, and the sea like a perfume-vessel.
On earth there is not another like him, who is made without fear.
You will be certain that your seed will be great, and your offspring like the plants of the earth.
My friends have been false like a stream, like streams in the valleys which come to an end:
Has not man his ordered time of trouble on the earth? and are not his days like the days of a servant working for payment?
How long will you say these things, and how long will the words of your mouth be like a strong wind?
(For we are but of yesterday, and have no knowledge, because our days on earth are gone like a shade:)
They go rushing on like reed-boats, like an eagle dropping suddenly on its food.
Make sounds of grief like a virgin dressed in haircloth for the husband of her early years.
For a day of dark and deep shade is near, a day of cloud and black night: like a black cloud a great and strong people is covering the mountains; there has never been any like them and will not be after them again, from generation to generation.
Before them fire sends destruction, and after them flame is burning: the land is like the garden of Eden before them, and after them an unpeopled waste; truly, nothing has been kept safe from them.
Their form is like the form of horses, and they are running like war-horses.
Like the sound of war-carriages they go jumping on the tops of the mountains; like the noise of a flame of fire burning up the grain-stems, like a strong people lined up for the fight.
They are running like strong men, they go over the wall like men of war; every man goes straight on his way, their lines are not broken.
They make a rush on the town, running on the wall; they go up into the houses and in through the windows like a thief.
And John gave this witness, saying, I saw the Spirit coming down from heaven like a dove and resting on him.
If a man does not keep himself in me, he becomes dead and is cut off like a dry branch; such branches are taken up and put in the fire and burned.
This is the bread which has come down from heaven. It is not like the food which your fathers had: they took of the manna, and are dead; but he who takes this bread for food will have life for ever.
The servants made answer, No man ever said things like this man.
Then the Pharisees said to them, Have you, like the others, been given false ideas?
You have no knowledge of him, but I have knowledge of him; and if I said I have no knowledge of him I would be talking falsely like you: but I have full knowledge of him, and I keep his word.
Some said, It is he: others said, No, but he is like him. He said, I am he.
And there was no day like that, before it or after it, when the Lord gave ear to the voice of a man; for the Lord was fighting for Israel.
He was in great fear, because Gibeon was a great town, like one of the king's towns, greater than Ai, and all the men in it were men of war.
And they went out, they and all their armies with them, a great people, in number like the sand on the seaside, with horses and war-carriages in great number.
My brothers, however, who went up with me, made the heart of the people like water: but I was true to the Lord with all my heart.
And because of this news, our hearts became like water, and there was no more spirit in any of us because of you; for the Lord your God is God in heaven on high and here on earth.
And they said to Joshua, Truly, the Lord has given all the land into our hands; and all the people of the land have become like water because of us.
Now when the news came to all the kings of the Amorites on the west side of Jordan, and all the kings of the Canaanites living by the sea, how the Lord had made the waters of Jordan dry before the children of Israel, till they had gone across, their hearts became like water, and there was no more spirit in them, because of the children of Israel.
Israel has done wrong, sinning against the agreement which I made with them: they have even taken of the cursed thing; acting falsely like thieves they have put it among their goods.
The men of Ai put to death about thirty-six of them, driving them from before the town as far as the stoneworks, and overcoming them on the way down: and the hearts of the people became like water.
But these men say evil about such things as they have no knowledge of; and the things of which they have natural knowledge, like beasts without reason, are the cause of their destruction.
A curse on them! They have gone in the way of Cain, running uncontrolled into the error of Balaam for reward, and have come to destruction by saying evil against the Lord, like Korah.
Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the towns near them, having like these, given themselves up to unclean desires and gone after strange flesh, have been made an example, undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.
Then the woman came in, and said to her husband, A man came to me, and his form was like the form of a god, causing great fear; I put no question to him about where he came from, and he did not give me his name;
And when he came to Lehi, the Philistines came out, meeting him with loud cries; then the spirit of the Lord came rushing on him, and the cords on his arms became like grass which has been burned with fire, and the bands came falling off his hands.
And Samson said to them, If you go on like this, truly I will take my full payment from you; and that will be the end of it.
And he said to her, If they only put round me new thick cords which have never been used, then I will become feeble and will be like any other man.
So Delilah took new thick cords, knotting them tightly round him, and said to him, The Philistines are on you, Samson. And men were waiting secretly in the inner room. And the cords were broken off his arms like threads.
Then Delilah said to Samson, Up to now you have made sport of me with false words; now say truly, how may you be put in bands? And he said to her, If you get the seven twists of my hair worked into the cloth you are making and fixed with the pin, I will become feeble and will be like any other man.
And opening all his heart to her, he said to her, My head has never been touched by a blade, for I have been separate to God from the day of my birth: if my hair is cut off, then my strength will go from me and I will become feeble, and will be like any other man.
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