Job 38:40

World English Bible (2000)

when they crouch in their dens, and lie in wait in the thicket?

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 37:8 : 8 Then the animals take cover, and remain in their dens.
  • Gen 49:9 : 9 Judah is a lion's cub. From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down, he crouched as a lion, as a lioness. Who will rouse him up?
  • Num 23:24 : 24 Behold, the people rises up as a lioness, As a lion he lifts himself up. He shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drinks the blood of the slain."
  • Num 24:9 : 9 He couched, he lay down as a lion, as a lioness; who shall rouse him up? Everyone who blesses you is blessed. Everyone who curses you is cursed."

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 38:41
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    41Who provides for the raven his prey, when his young ones cry to God, and wander for lack of food?

  • Job 37:8
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    8Then the animals take cover, and remain in their dens.

  • Ps 104:20-22
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    20You make darkness, and it is night, in which all the animals of the forest prowl.

    21The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their food from God.

    22The sun rises, and they steal away, and lay down in their dens.

  • Ps 17:11-12
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    11They have now surrounded us in our steps. They set their eyes to cast us down to the earth.

    12He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

  • Ps 10:8-10
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    8He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.

    9He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless, when he draws him in his net.

    10The helpless are crushed. They collapse. They fall under his strength.

  • Amos 3:4
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    4Will a lion roar in the thicket, when he has no prey? Does a young lion cry out of his den, if he has caught nothing?

  • Nah 2:11-12
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    11Where is the den of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion and the lioness walked, the lion's cubs, and no one made them afraid?

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  • Job 30:6-7
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    6So that they dwell in frightful valleys, and in holes of the earth and of the rocks.

    7Among the bushes they bray; and under the nettles they are gathered together.

  • Prov 1:18
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    18but these lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.

  • Ps 22:13
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    13They open their mouths wide against me, lions tearing prey and roaring.

  • Job 40:20-21
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    20Surely the mountains produce food for him, where all the animals of the field play.

    21He lies under the lotus trees, in the covert of the reed, and the marsh.

  • Isa 5:29
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    29Their roaring will be like a lioness. They will roar like young lions. Yes, they shall roar, and seize their prey and carry it off, and there will be no one to deliver.

  • Lam 3:10
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    10He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.

  • Job 39:28-30
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    28On the cliff he dwells, and makes his home, on the point of the cliff, and the stronghold.

    29From there he spies out the prey. His eyes see it afar off.

    30His young ones also suck up blood. Where the slain are, there he is."

  • Ps 56:6
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    6They conspire and lurk, watching my steps, they are eager to take my life.

  • Ps 59:15
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    15They shall wander up and down for food, and wait all night if they aren't satisfied.

  • Ps 64:4-5
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    4to shoot innocent men from ambushes. They shoot at him suddenly and fearlessly.

    5They encourage themselves in evil plans. They talk about laying snares secretly. They say, "Who will see them?"

  • Hos 13:7
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    7Therefore I am like a lion to them. Like a leopard, I will lurk by the path.

  • Jer 18:22
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    22Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you shall bring a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.

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  • Lam 4:19
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    19Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky: They chased us on the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.

  • Job 39:1-2
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  • Job 4:10-11
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    10The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions, are broken.

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    6Break their teeth, God, in their mouth. Break out the great teeth of the young lions, Yahweh.

  • Job 39:4
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    4Their young ones become strong. They grow up in the open field. They go forth, and don't return again.

  • Jer 51:38
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    38They shall roar together like young lions; they shall growl as lions' cubs.

  • Prov 1:11
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  • Ps 38:12
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    12They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.

  • Ps 147:9
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    9He provides food for the livestock, and for the young ravens when they call.

  • Ezek 19:6
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    6He went up and down among the lions; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.

  • Jer 25:38
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    38He has left his covert, as the lion; for their land is become an astonishment because of the fierceness of the oppressing [sword], and because of his fierce anger.

  • Job 39:15
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    15and forgets that the foot may crush them, or that the wild animal may trample them.

  • Ps 37:32
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    32The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to kill him.

  • Isa 56:9
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    9All you animals of the field, come to devour, [yes], all you animals in the forest.

  • Job 24:5
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    5Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children.