Job 4:10
Lions may roar and growl, but their teeth still break.
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9A breath from God destroys them; a blast of his anger wipes them out.
11Even a lion dies from lack of food, and the lioness' cubs are scattered.
Cross References
Job 29:17I broke the jaw of the wicked and made them drop their prey from their teeth.
Psalms 57:4I am surrounded by man-eating lions—I am forced to live with them! Their teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongues are swords.
Psalms 58:7May they vanish like water that flows away; when they shoot their arrows may they miss their mark.
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 →