Job 4:11
The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion’s whelps are scattered abroad.
King James Version
In Context
12Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof.
Cross References
Genesis 49:9Judah is a lion’s whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?
Numbers 24:9He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a great lion: who shall stir him up? Blessed is he that blesseth thee, and cursed is he that curseth thee.
Job 8:3Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?
Job 38:39Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions,
Psalms 34:10The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing.
Jeremiah 4:7The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste, 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 →