Lexicon :: Strong's H3644 - kᵊmô

Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? No one else on earth is like him, a man of perfect integrity, who fears God and turns away from evil. He still retains his integrity, even though you incited me against him, to destroy him for no good reason.”

My brothers are as treacherous as a wadi,

as seasonal streams that overflow

For he is not a man like me, that I can answer him,

that we can take each other to court.

“It is a land of blackness like the deepest darkness,

gloomy and chaotic,

where even the light is like[fn] the darkness.”

But I also have a mind like you;

I am not inferior to you.

Who doesn’t know the things you are talking about?[fn]

the scent of water makes it thrive

and produce twigs like a sapling.

Why do you persecute me as God does?

Will you never get enough of my flesh?

Food may come from the earth,

but below the surface the earth is transformed as by fire.

I would give him an account of all my steps;

I would approach him like a prince.

Your wickedness affects a person like yourself,

and your righteousness, a son of man.[fn]

Look, God shows himself exalted by his power.

Who is a teacher like him?

The earth is changed as clay is by a seal;

its hills stand out like the folds of a garment.

Do you have an arm like God’s?

Can you thunder with a voice like his?

His heart is as hard as a rock,

as hard as a lower millstone!

He makes Lebanon skip like a calf,

and Sirion, like a young wild ox.

All my bones will say,

“LORD, who is like you,

rescuing the poor from one too strong for him,

the poor or the needy from one who robs him? ”

“You have done these things, and I kept silent;

you thought I was just like you.

But I will rebuke you

and lay out the case before you.[fn]

They have venom like the venom of a snake,

like the deaf cobra that stops up its ears,

Add days to the king’s life;

may his years span many generations.

You satisfy me as with rich food;[fn]

my mouth will praise you with joyful lips.

Your righteousness reaches the heights, God,

you who have done great things;

God, who is like you?

If I had decided to say these things aloud,

I would have betrayed your people.[fn]

He split the sea and brought them across;

the water stood firm like a wall.

How long, LORD? Will you be angry forever?

Will your jealousy keep burning like fire?

Lord, there is no one like you among the gods,

and there are no works like yours.

abandoned[fn] among the dead.

I am like the slain lying in the grave,

whom you no longer remember,

and who are cut off from your care.[fn]

LORD God of Armies,

who is strong like you, LORD?

Your faithfulness surrounds you.

For all our days ebb away under your wrath;

we end our years like a sigh.

though the wicked sprout like grass

and all evildoers flourish,

they will be eternally destroyed.

For my days vanish like smoke,

and my bones burn like a furnace.

Those who make them are[fn] just like them,

as are all who trust in them.

Those who make them are just like them,

as are all who trust in them.

They make their tongues

as sharp as a snake’s bite;

viper’s venom is under their lips.Selah

As when one plows and breaks up the soil,

turning up rocks,

so our[fn] bones have been scattered

at the mouth of Sheol.

for it’s like someone calculating inwardly.[fn]

“Eat and drink,” he says to you,

but his heart is not with you.

Who is this who shines like the dawn,

as beautiful as the moon,

bright as the sun,

awe-inspiring as an army with banners?

How beautiful are your sandaled feet, princess![fn]

The curves of your thighs are like jewelry,

the handiwork of a master.

They all respond to you, saying,

“You too have become as weak as we are;

you have become like us!

As a pregnant woman about to give birth

writhes and cries out in her pains,

so we were before you, LORD.

Then you will defile your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away like menstrual cloths, and call them filth.

The living, only the living can thank you,

as I do today;

a father will make your faithfulness known to children.

“I have stirred up one from the north, and he has come,

one from the east who invokes my[fn] name.

He will march over rulers as if they were mud,

like a potter who treads the clay.

Who, like me, can announce the future?

Let him say so and make a case before me,

since I have established an ancient people.

Let these gods declare[fn] the coming things,

and what will take place.