Job 38:40
When they bow down in dens — Abide in a thicket for a covert?
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
When they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait?
In Context
39Dost thou hunt for a lion prey? And the desire of young lions fulfil?
Cross References
Numbers 23:24Lo, the people as a lioness riseth, And as a lion he lifteth himself up, He lieth not down till he eateth prey, And blood of pierced ones doth drink.'
Job 37:8And enter doth the beast into covert, And in its habitations it doth continue.
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 →