Job 39:1
Wilt thou hunt the pray for the lyon? or fill the appetite of the lyons whelpes,
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
2When they couch in their places, and remaine in the couert to lye in waite?
Cross References
1 Samuel 24:2When Saul was turned from ye Philistims, they told him, saying, Behold, Dauid is in the wildernes of En-gedi.
Psalms 104:18The high mountaines are for the goates: the rockes are a refuge for the conies.
Matthew Henry on Job 39:1
God proceeds here to show Job what little reason he had to charge him with unkindness who was so compassionate to the inferior creatures and took such a tender care of them, or to boast of himself, and his own good deeds before God, which were nothing to the divine mercies. He shows him also what great reason he had to be humble who knew so little of the nature of the creatures about him and had so little influence upon them, and to submit to that God on whom they all depend. He discourses particularly, I.… Read the whole commentary →