Job 38:40

when they are crouching in their dens 1 and sheltering in hiding to lie in wait? 1

Unlocked Literal Bible

In The King James Version

When they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait?

In Context

39Can you hunt down a victim for a lioness 1 or satisfy the appetite of her young lion cubs 1

41Who provides victims for the ravens 1 when their young ones cry out to God 1 and stagger about for lack of food?

Read all of Job 38

Cross References

Numbers 23:24Look, the people rise like a lioness, 2 as a lion emerges and attacks. 1 He does not lie down until he eats his victim 2 and drinks the blood of what he has killed.”

Job 37:8Then the beasts go into hiding 1 and stay in their dens. 1

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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Job 38:40