Job 4:11
The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion’s whelps are scattered abroad.
In Context
10The lion may roar, and the fierce lion may growl, yet the teeth of the young lions are broken.
12Now a word came to me secretly; my ears caught a whisper of it.
Cross References
Genesis 49:9Judah is a young lion—my son, you return from the prey. Like a lion he crouches and lies down; like a lioness, who dares to rouse him?
Numbers 24:9He crouches, he lies down like a lion, like a lioness—who dares to rouse him? Blessed are those who bless you and cursed are those who curse you.”
Job 8:3Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right?
Job 38:39Can you hunt the prey for a lioness or satisfy the hunger of young lions
Psalms 34:10Young lions go lacking and hungry, but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.
Jeremiah 4:7A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations has set out. He has left his lair to lay waste your land. Your cities will be reduced to ruins and lie uninhabited.
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 →