H9004–/כ–k

Though he may get silver together like dust, and make ready great stores of clothing;

כֶּעָפָ֣ר (כֶּ) ke. “like <the>”וְ֝כַחֹ֗מֶר (כַ) kha. “like <the>”

His house has no more strength than a spider's thread, or a watchman's tent.

כָעָ֣שׁ (כָ) kha. “like <the>”וּ֝כְסֻכָּ֗ה (כְ) khe. “like”

Fears overtake him like rushing waters; in the night the storm-wind takes him away.

כַ֭מַּיִם (כַ֭) Kha. “like <the>”

If only I might again be as I was in the months which are past, in the days when God was watching over me!

כְיַרְחֵי־ (כְ) khe. “like”כִּ֝ימֵ֗י (כִּ֝) ki. “like”

As I was in my flowering years, when my tent was covered by the hand of God;

כַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר (כַּ) ka. “just”

I put on righteousness as my clothing, and was full of it; right decisions were to me a robe and a head-dress.

כִּֽמְעִ֥יל (כִּֽ) ki “[was] like”

Then I said, I will come to my end with my children round me, my days will be as the sand in number;

וְ֝כַח֗וֹל (כַ) kha. “like <the>”

They were waiting for me as for the rain, opening their mouths wide as for the spring rains.

כַמָּטָ֣ר (כַ) kha. “like the”

I took my place as a chief, guiding them on their way, and I was as a king among his army. ...

כְּמֶ֣לֶךְ (כְּ) ke. “like”כַּאֲשֶׁ֖ר (כַּ) ka. “just”

They are sent out from among their townsmen, men are crying after them as thieves

כַּגַּנָּֽב׃ (כַּ) ka. “like <the>”

As through a wide broken place in the wall they come on, I am overturned by the shock of their attack.

כְּפֶ֣רֶץ (כְּ) ke. “like”

Fears have come on me; my hope is gone like the wind, and my well-being like a cloud.

כָּ֭רוּחַ (כָּ֭) Ka. “like the”וּ֝כְעָ֗ב (כְ) khe. “like”

With great force he takes a grip of my clothing, pulling me by the neck of my coat.

כְּפִ֖י (כְּ) ke. “like”

Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust.

כֶּעָפָ֥ר (כֶּ) ke. “like <the>”

(For I was cared for by God as by a father from my earliest days; he was my guide from the body of my mother;)

כְאָ֑ב (כְ) khe. “like”

If I kept my evil doings covered, and my sin in the secret of my breast,

כְאָדָ֣ם (כְ) khe. “like”

My stomach is like wine which is unable to get out; like skins full of new wine, it is almost burst.

כְּיַ֥יִן (כְּ) ke. “[is] like”כְּאֹב֥וֹת (כְּ) ke. “like”

For I am not able to give names of honour to any man; and if I did, my Maker would quickly take me away.

כִּ֝מְעַ֗ט (כִּ֝) ki “like”

See, I am the same as you are in the eyes of God; I was cut off from the same bit of wet earth.

כְפִ֣יךָ (כְ) khe. “[am] like”

What man is like Job, a man who freely makes sport of God,

כְּאִיּ֑וֹב (כְּ) ke. “like”כַּמָּֽיִם׃ (כַּ) ka. “like <the>”

For he gives to every man the reward of his work, and sees that he gets the fruit of his ways.

וּֽכְאֹ֥רַח (כְ) khe. “according to”

But if not, they come to their end, and give up their breath without knowledge.

כִּבְלִי־ (כִּ) ki “like”

Will you, with him, make the skies smooth, and strong as a polished looking-glass?

כִּרְאִ֥י (כִּ) ki “like”

Get your strength together like a man of war; I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers.

כְגֶ֣בֶר (כְ) khe. “like”

It is changed like wet earth under a stamp, and is coloured like a robe;

כְּחֹ֣מֶר (כְּ) ke. “like”