Job 38:39
37 Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Or who can tilt the water jars of the heavens
38 when the dust hardens into a mass and the clods of earth stick together?
Can you hunt the prey for a lioness or satisfy the hunger of young lions
40 when they crouch in their dens and lie in wait in the thicket?
41 Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God as they wander about for lack of food?
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Can you hunt the prey for a lioness or satisfy the hunger of young lions
- KJV
- Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions,
- WEB
- “Can you hunt the prey for the lioness, or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,
- ASV
- Canst thou hunt the prey for the lioness, Or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,
- DARBY
- Dost thou hunt the prey for the lioness, and dost thou satisfy the appetite of the young lions,
- BLB
- Can you hunt prey for a lion, or satisfy the life of young lions,
- ÅB
- Jager du rov for løvinnen, og metter du de grådige ungløver,
- OTB
- «Kan du jakte bytte for løvinnen
og tilfredsstille de unge løvenes hunger - B1930
- Jager du rov for løvinnen, og metter du de grådige ungløver,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 104:21
The young lions roar for their prey and seek their food from God.
Read in contextJob 4:10–11
The lion may roar, and the fierce lion may growl, yet the teeth of the young lions are broken.
Read in contextPsalms 34:10
Young lions go lacking and hungry, but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.
Read in contextPsalms 145:15–16
The eyes of all look to You, and You give them their food in season.
Read in context