Quotes about Metaphor
Did You not pour me out like milk, and curdle me like cheese?
- Job 10:10
and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’
- Job 17:14
then let briers grow instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley.” Thus conclude the words of Job.
- Job 31:40
Behold, my belly is like unvented wine; it is about to burst like a new wineskin.
- Job 32:19
He regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood.
- Job 41:27
Not so the wicked! For they are like chaff driven off by the wind.
- Psalm 1:4
May they be like chaff in the wind, as the angel of the LORD drives them away.
- Psalm 35:5
Make them like tumbleweed, O my God, like chaff before the wind.
- Psalm 83:13
I compare you, my darling, to a mare among Pharaoh’s chariots.
- Song of Solomon 1:9
How beautiful you are, my darling—how very beautiful! Your eyes are like doves behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats streaming down Mount Gilead.
- Song of Solomon 4:1
Your neck is like the tower of David, built with rows of stones; on it hang a thousand shields, all of them shields of warriors.
- Song of Solomon 4:4
Your breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle grazing among the lilies.
- Song of Solomon 4:5