Job 4:11

Bible in Basic English (1941)

The old lion comes to his end for need of food, and the young of the she-lion go wandering in all directions.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 34:10 : 10 The young lions are in need and have no food; but those who are looking to the Lord will have every good thing.
  • Jer 4:7 : 7 A lion has gone up from his secret place in the woods, and one who makes waste the nations is on his way; he has gone out from his place, to make your land unpeopled, so that your towns will be made waste, with no man living in them.
  • Hos 11:10 : 10 They will go after the Lord; his cry will be like that of a lion; his cry will be loud, and the children will come from the west, shaking with fear;
  • 2 Tim 4:17 : 17 But the Lord was by my side and gave me strength; so that through me the news might be given out in full measure, and all the Gentiles might give ear: and I was taken out of the mouth of the lion.
  • Gen 49:9 : 9 Judah is a young lion; like a lion full of meat you have become great, my son; now he takes his rest like a lion stretched out and like an old lion; by whom will his sleep be broken?
  • Num 23:24 : 24 See, Israel comes up like a she-lion, lifting himself up like a lion: he will take no rest till he has made a meal of those he has overcome, drinking the blood of those he has put to death.
  • Num 24:9 : 9 He took his sleep stretched out like a lion, and like a she-lion: by whom will his rest be broken? May a blessing be on everyone who gives you blessing, and a curse on everyone by whom you are cursed.
  • Job 1:19 : 19 When a great wind came rushing from the waste land against the four sides of the house, and it came down on the young men, and they are dead; and I was the only one who got away safe to give you the news.
  • Job 8:3-4 : 3 Does God give wrong decisions? or is the Ruler of all not upright in his judging? 4 If your children have done evil against him, then their punishment is from his hand.
  • Job 27:14-15 : 14 If his children are increased, it is for the sword; and his offspring have not enough bread. 15 When those of his house who are still living come to their end by disease, they are not put into the earth, and their widows are not weeping for them.
  • Ps 7:2 : 2 So that he may not come rushing on my soul like a lion, wounding it, while there is no one to be my saviour.

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  • Job 4:10
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    10 Though the noise of the lion and the sounding of his voice, may be loud, the teeth of the young lions are broken.

  • Nah 2:11-13
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    84%

    11 Everything has been taken from her, all is gone, she has nothing more: the heart is turned to water, the knees are shaking, all are twisted in pain, and colour has gone from all faces.

    12 Where is the lions' hole, the place where the young lions got their food, where the lion and the she-lion were walking with their young, without cause for fear?

    13 Food enough for his young and for his she-lions was pulled down by the lion; his hole was full of flesh and his resting-place stored with meat.

  • Ps 104:21
    78%

    21 The young lions go thundering after their food; searching for their meat from God.

  • Ps 17:12
    78%

    12 Like a lion desiring its food, and like a young lion waiting in secret places.

  • Amos 3:4
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    4 Will a lion give his loud cry in the woodland when no food is there? will the voice of the young lion be sounding from his hole if he has taken nothing?

  • Isa 5:29
    77%

    29 The sound of their armies will be like the voice of a lion, and their war-cry like the noise of young lions: with loud cries they will come down on their food and will take it away safely, and there will be no one to take it out of their hands.

  • Jer 2:15
    77%

    15 The young lions have made an outcry against him with a loud voice: they have made his land waste; his towns are burned up, with no one living in them.

  • Job 28:8
    77%

    8 The great beasts have not gone over it, and the cruel lion has not taken that way.

  • Ezek 19:5-7
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    76%

    5 Now when she saw that her hope was made foolish and gone, she took another of her little ones and made him into a young lion.

    6 And he went up and down among the lions and became a young lion, learning to go after beasts for his food; and he took men for his meat.

    7 And he sent destruction on their widows and made waste their towns; and the land and everything in it became waste because of the loud sound of his voice.

  • Jer 4:7
    76%

    7 A lion has gone up from his secret place in the woods, and one who makes waste the nations is on his way; he has gone out from his place, to make your land unpeopled, so that your towns will be made waste, with no man living in them.

  • Ezek 19:2-3
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    76%

    2 What was your mother? Like a she-lion among lions, stretched out among the young lions she gave food to her little ones.

    3 And one of her little ones came to growth under her care, and became a young lion, learning to go after beasts for his food; and he took men for his meat.

  • Jer 25:38
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    38 The lion has come out of his secret place, for the land has become a waste because of the cruel sword, and because of the heat of his wrath.

  • Ps 34:10
    75%

    10 The young lions are in need and have no food; but those who are looking to the Lord will have every good thing.

  • Prov 30:30
    75%

    30 The lion, which is strongest among beasts, not turning from his way for any;

  • Jer 51:38
    75%

    38 They will be crying out together like lions, their voices will be like the voices of young lions.

  • Zech 11:3
    75%

    3 The sound of the crying of the keepers of the flock! for their glory is made waste: the sound of the loud crying of the young lions! for the pride of Jordan is made waste.

  • Gen 49:9
    74%

    9 Judah is a young lion; like a lion full of meat you have become great, my son; now he takes his rest like a lion stretched out and like an old lion; by whom will his sleep be broken?

  • Num 23:24
    74%

    24 See, Israel comes up like a she-lion, lifting himself up like a lion: he will take no rest till he has made a meal of those he has overcome, drinking the blood of those he has put to death.

  • Ps 22:13
    74%

    13 I saw their mouths wide open, like lions crying after food.

  • Joel 1:6
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    6 For a nation has come up over my land, strong and without number; his teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the back teeth of a great lion.

  • Jer 5:6
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    6 And so a lion from the woods will put them to death, a wolf of the waste land will make them waste, a leopard will keep watch on their towns, and everyone who goes out from them will be food for the beasts; because of the great number of their sins and the increase of their wrongdoing.

  • Ps 58:6
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    6 O God, let their teeth be broken in their mouths; let the great teeth of the young lions be pulled out, O Lord.

  • Hos 13:7-8
    2 verses
    73%

    7 So I will be like a lion to them; as a cruel beast I will keep watch by the road;

    8 I will come face to face with them like a bear whose young ones have been taken from her, and their inmost hearts will be broken; there the dogs will make a meal of them; they will be wounded by the beasts of the field.

  • Isa 11:6-7
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    73%

    6 And the wolf will be living with the lamb, and the leopard will take his rest with the young goat; and the lion will take grass for food like the ox; and the young lion will go with the young ones of the herd; and a little child will be their guide.

    7 And the cow and the bear will be friends while their young ones are sleeping together.

  • 2 Kgs 17:25
    73%

    25 Now when first they were living there they did not give worship to the Lord. So the Lord sent lions among them, causing the death of some of them.

  • Hos 11:10
    73%

    10 They will go after the Lord; his cry will be like that of a lion; his cry will be loud, and the children will come from the west, shaking with fear;

  • Isa 31:4
    73%

    4 For the Lord has said to me, As a lion, or a young lion, makes an angry noise over his food, and if a band of herdsmen come out against him, he will not be in fear of their voices, or give up his food for their noise: so the Lord of armies will come down to make war against Mount Zion and its hill.

  • Prov 28:1
    72%

    1 The evil man goes running away when no man is after him, but the upright are without fear, like the lion.

  • Hos 5:14
    72%

    14 For I will be to Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the children of Judah; I, even I, will give him wounds and go away; I will take him away, and there will be no helper.

  • 1 Kgs 13:24-25
    2 verses
    72%

    24 And he went on his way; but on the road a lion came rushing at him and put him to death; and his dead body was stretched in the road with the ass by its side, and the lion was there by the body.

    25 And some men, going by, saw the body stretched out in the road with the lion by its side; and they came and gave news of it in the town where the old prophet was living.

  • Ps 7:2
    72%

    2 So that he may not come rushing on my soul like a lion, wounding it, while there is no one to be my saviour.

  • Prov 22:13
    72%

    13 The hater of work says, There is a lion outside: I will be put to death in the streets.

  • Ezek 34:5
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    5 And they were wandering in every direction because there was no keeper: and they became food for all the beasts of the field.

  • Prov 28:15
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    15 Like a loud-voiced lion and a wandering bear, is an evil ruler over a poor people.

  • 1 Kgs 20:36
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    36 Then he said to him, Because you have not given ear to the voice of the Lord, straight away when you have gone from me a lion will put you to death. And when he had gone, straight away a lion came rushing at him and put him to death.

  • Amos 3:8
    71%

    8 The cry of the lion is sounding; who will not have fear? The Lord God has said the word; is it possible for the prophet to keep quiet?

  • 1 Kgs 13:28
    71%

    28 And he went and saw the dead body stretched out in the road with the ass and the lion by its side: the lion had not taken the body for its food or done any damage to the ass.

  • Jer 2:30
    70%

    30 I gave your children blows to no purpose; they got no good from training: your sword has been the destruction of your prophets, like a death-giving lion.

  • Mic 5:8
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    8 Your hand is lifted up against those who are against you, and all your haters will be cut off.

  • Ps 57:4
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    4 My soul is among lions; I am stretched out among those who are on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and whose tongue is a sharp sword.