Job 39:1
\38:39\Do you go after food for the she-lion, or get meat so that the young lions may have enough,
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In Context
2\38:40\When they are stretched out in their holes, and are waiting in the brushwood?
Cross References
1 Samuel 24:2\24:1\Now when Saul came back from fighting the Philistines, news was given him that David was in the waste land of En-gedi.
Psalms 104:18The high hills are a safe place for the mountain goats, and the rocks for the small beasts.
Matthew Henry on Job 39:1
God proceeds here to show Job what little reason he had to charge him with unkindness who was so compassionate to the inferior creatures and took such a tender care of them, or to boast of himself, and his own good deeds before God, which were nothing to the divine mercies. He shows him also what great reason he had to be humble who knew so little of the nature of the creatures about him and had so little influence upon them, and to submit to that God on whom they all depend. He discourses particularly, I.… Read the whole commentary →