Job 4:11
The fierce lion perisheth for lack of prey, And the whelps of the lioness are scattered abroad.
Noyes 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
12A word was once secretly brought to me, And mine ear caught a whisper thereof.
Cross References
Job 8:3Will God pervert judgment? Or will the Almighty pervert justice?
Job 38:39Canst thou hunt prey for the lioness, Or satisfy the hunger of the young lions,
Psalms 34:10Young lions want, and suffer hunger; But they who fear the LORD want no good thing.
Jeremiah 4:7The lion goeth up from his thicket, The destroyer of nations is on his way; He goeth forth from his place to make thy land desolate; Thy cities shall be laid waste so as to be without an 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 →