Job 38:40

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

when they crouch in their dens, when they wait in ambush in the thicket?

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 37:8 : 8 The wild animals go to their lairs, and in their dens they remain.
  • Gen 49:9 : 9 You are a lion’s cub, Judah, from the prey, my son, you have gone up. He crouches and lies down like a lion; like a lioness– who will rouse him?
  • Num 23:24 : 24 Indeed, the people will rise up like a lioness, and like a lion raises himself up; they will not lie down until they eat their prey, and drink the blood of the slain.”
  • Num 24:9 : 9 They crouch and lie down like a lion, and as a lioness, who can stir him? Blessed is the one who blesses you, and cursed is the one who curses you!’”

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  • Ps 17:11-12
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