Job 38:40
When they bow down in dens—Abide in a thicket for a covert?
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
When they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait?
In Context
39Do you hunt prey for a lion? And fulfill the desire of young lions?
Cross References
Numbers 23:24Behold, the people rises as a lioness, || And he lifts himself up as a lion; He does not lie down until he eats prey, || And drinks blood of pierced ones.”
Job 37:8And the beast enters into [its] lair, || And it continues in its habitations.
Matthew Henry on Job 38:26-41
God's Sovereign Dominion and Goodness. ( b. c. 1520.) 25 Who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder; 26 To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man; 27 To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth? 28 Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew? 29 Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it? 30 The… Read the whole commentary →