Job 4:11
The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, And the whelps of the lioness are scattered abroad.
American Standard Version
In The King James Version
The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion’s whelps are scattered abroad.
In Context
12Now a thing was secretly brought to me, And mine ear received a whisper thereof.
Cross References
Genesis 49:9Judah is a lion`s whelp; From the prey, my son, thou art gone up: He stooped down, he couched as a lion, And as a lioness; who shall rouse him up?
Numbers 24:9He couched, he lay down as a lion, And as a lioness; who shall rouse him up? Blessed be every one that blesseth thee, And cursed be every one that curseth thee.
Job 8:3Doth God pervert justice? Or doth the Almighty pervert righteousness?
Job 38:39Canst thou hunt the prey for the lioness, Or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,
Psalms 34:10The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger; But they that seek Jehovah shall not want any good thing.
Jeremiah 4:7A lion is gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations; he is on his way, he is gone forth from his place, to make thy land desolate, that thy cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.
Matthew Henry on Job 4:8-12
7 Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off? 8 Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same. 9 By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed. 10 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken. 11 The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad. Eliphaz here advances another argument to prove… Read the whole commentary →